Attorney General Lisa Madigan today urged U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to strengthen oversight of for-profit colleges and filed comments with the Department of Education in support of requiring schools to ensure students can pay off their loans and to make more accurate and complete disclosures about their job placement rates.
The Admission Supervisory Committee for Professional Colleges, headed by former judge J.M. James, has annulled the entrance examination held in Kozhikode on May 31 for admission to the MBBS management seats offered by private and self-financing medical colleges in the State. The committee has found prima facie evidence of corruption and malpractice in the conduct of the test.
Primary education minister Sake Sailajanath directed officials to initiate stringent action against private colleges and schools if they were found violating norms and collecting exorbitant fees.
The state of student debt in California, especially at public universities, is better than the rest of the country. That doesn’t mean the situation is manageable for all student borrowers.
As many as eight private medical colleges in the state have withdrawn from the agreement they had entered with the government on seat sharing and decided to do away with 50% general category seats. In other words, any student who seeks admission to these colleges will now have to pay almost Rs 5 lakh as fees per annum, instead of the earlier subsidized fees of Rs 1,65,000/annum.
For private high schools, colleges and universities, survival is the name of the game when the roll-out of the K to 12 (kindergarten to Grade 12) reform is completed.
The cost of college here in the Hub is on the rise. Before you start the hemming and hawing, however, the “good news” is this: school officials are calling these increases among the lowest in recent history.
With nine Ford Family Foundation scholarship recipients bound for George Fox University in the fall, the Newberg, Ore., school ranks No. 1 among privates in attracting students who earned the highly competitive scholarship.
A state bill to increase grant aid to middle-income college students would ease student debt burdens and benefit the region, the presidents of three local private colleges and the head of a state association of independent schools said during a Times-Tribune editorial board meeting on Thursday.
The Legislative Assembly on Thursday passed the Karnataka Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission and Fixation Fee) (Special Provisions) Bill, 2013, that provides recognition for the consensual agreement proposed to be entered in to between the State government and the private unaided educational institutions imparting professional educational courses for 2013-14 academic year.