La proliferación de universidades privadas que no garantizan calidad formativa fue criticada ayer en la reunión de la Cámara de Anunciantes del Paraguay (CAP). Es muy difícil encontrar talentos, sostienen empresarios.
Una moratoria temporal para la creación de universidades públicas y privadas por un periodo de tres años, es lo que dispone el proyecto de ley aprobado por mayoría en la Comisión de Educación del Congreso.
El candidato a la Presidencia Municipal por los Partidos Acción Nacional y Nueva Alianza, Alejandro Zapata Perogordo, se reunió con los rectores de catorce universidades privadas de nuestra capital, con quienes habló de los retos que la ciudad enfrenta en materia de educación y desarrollo.
Education should be kept away from politics. Wherever you have more regulations, you will also have more corruption. That is why private universities were propagated in the first place; to build an environment away from the trifling matters faced in public colleges.
The Higher Education Minister said the government is planning to enhance academic and non-academic facilities and physical resources of universities and encourage the establishment of private universities to attract more foreign students.
The national ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology in the Republic of South Sudan has ordered with immediate effect the closure of private institutions of learning/ private universities that have been operating in the country saying they do not measure to the standards of an institution of Higher learning.
Private bodies such as registered societies, trusts or companies and foreign institutions (termed ‘promoters’) will also qualify to set up the non-profit innovation institutions – either through collaboration or independently – after signing an agreement with the government.
Adwok Nyaba, the minister for higher education, decided to make news by closing down almost all private universities in the country with immediate effect from Thursday the 10th of May 2012.
Recently, another small college closed its doors. It was located in New England, the region of the country with the most rapid decline in youth and most rapid growth in aging populations. It was a college focused on creative writing, the arts and humanities.
While public colleges and universities are hiking tuition to make up for dramatic reductions to state higher-education funding, private colleges – which usually receive no state funding – have greater latitude to cut costs.
The dust seems to be settling on many of the reforms announced in last year's HE white paper but one topic still seems to get backs up: the perceived privatisation of HE and the growing number of private institutions.
Counter to the stereotypical image of private colleges, Oregon's independent institutions are not reserved for the privileged. Nor do they exist solely to serve the majority. Quite to the contrary, an education at one of Oregon's independent colleges or universities is available to all those with the ability to benefit from the experience -- not just to an elite few.
Brown University agreed to a deal with the city of Providence, R.I., that would double the amount the Ivy League college currently pays to the financially troubled city.
El consejero de Educación, Cultura y Deportes, Miguel Ángel Serna, ha asegurado que el Gobierno de Cantabria "no aporta nada" a la nueva universidad privada de la Fundación Universidad Iberoamericana (Funiber) y que su única función será llevar al Parlamento regional la ley para su creación.
Un nuevo reporte de la agencia de noticias Reuters confirma lo que muchos estudiantes universitarios ya sabían y que parece difícil de creer: Los de las universidades públicas se están graduando con más deudas que los de las privadas.
Educational infrastructure in Nigeria is overstretched due to explosion of prospective students seeking admission into universities and other tertiary institutions. This has resulted in an unprecedented exodus of Nigerian students to foreign universities. In this report, our Ghana correspondent Kate Da Costa says many Nigerian students are being swindled by suspicious private universities in Ghana.
Ministers have introduced a system of "due diligence checks" for private higher education providers, it has emerged, as new figures show that the number of their students accessing state-funded loans has nearly doubled in a year.