Education firms Anhanguera Educacional Participacoes SA and Kroton Educacional SA were added to Brazil's benchmark Ibovespa stock index for the period between Sept. 2 of this year and Jan. 3, 2014, exchange operator BM&FBovespa said on Monday.
U.S. private colleges and universities largely fall into two categories: those with diverse revenue streams supplemented by robust research, healthcare and fundraising, and those highly dependent on student-generated revenues, according to a new Fitch Ratings report.
A student union in Sri Lanka says the students' movements in the country would oppose moves by the government to re-introduce the private universities bill.
I have spent the last couple of months acquainting myself with the goings on in our private universities. The (recent) and still unresolved strike by academic staff in our public universities, and government's pussyfooting over the lecturers' gravamen ensures that public universities have fallen off the radar of most parents/guardians looking to advance their children/wards' education.
Private universities in Ghana have appealed to government to restore the tax exempt status due them to enable them fully discharge their responsibilities to the people.
A controversial new university, the first of its kind in the United Kingdom, will open its doors in January 2015 – to students who can afford the annual £35,000 fees.
Owing to lack of qualified faculty and infrastructure in several new private engineering colleges in the state, over 6,000 postgraduate (M.E., M.Tech, M.B.A., M.Arch and M.Plan) seats went abegging at the end of the government’s single window counselling this year.
Students at for-profit medical schools in the Caribbean are amassing more debt than their peers at medical schools in the United States, and many of those students quit school early, thereby creating risk for taxpayers, according to an article in Bloomberg Markets magazine that examines trends at the Caribbean institutions. Some of those schools also pay hospitals in the United States to take their students for clinical training, a practice that has drawn the ire of some medical educators.
According to a study by Affordable Colleges Online, just one percent of the private colleges in the U.S. have a documented million-dollar return on investment (ROI): alumni whose lifetime earnings surpass those of non-degree holders by seven figures. The Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) is among that select group, with an estimated $1.62 million return after taking into account tuition and fees. That figure ranks as the third highest in the nation.