The shuttering of Ivy Bridge College could dump cold water on the online aspirations of some colleges, particularly ones that prefer to play it safe with their regional accreditor.
The Thunderbird School of Global Management, based in Arizona, announced in March its pending partnership with Laureate Education Inc. Several board members have since resigned, and alumni are protesting the alliance.
Las informaciones sobre los millonarios sueldos en la Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega fueron confirmadas con documentos entregados por la propia casa de estudios y que figuran en la pericia policial (13-2013) remitida a la 24 Fiscalía Provincial de Lima, la cual investiga al rector Luis Cervantes Liñán y las presuntas irregularidades en las que habría incurrido.
Names of the stakeholders chosen to rewrite the controversial “gainful employment” regulation beginning in September are starting to slip out. Some are prominent critics of the sector, indicating the Obama administration isn’t backing off from tightening regulations on vocational programs despite a court challenge to its last attempt.
Over the past ten years, I have watched a smattering of “for profit colleges” do just that – make money. Sadly, these “for profit” entities are raking in so much money while offering some of the worst educational outcomes to America’s most vulnerable students.
Private education stocks climbed on Thursday, led by share of Apollo Group Inc. (NYSE: APOL). DeVry, Inc. (NYSE: DV) ITT Educational Services Inc. (NYSE: ESI) and Corinthian Colleges Inc. (NYSE: COCO) also moved higher.
Managements of private engineering colleges have agreed to last year's proposal on segregating colleges into three groups to settle the extra fee issue.
The U.S. Justice Department has ended its investigation into talks among the leaders of some private colleges about ways to encourage institutions to spend more on need-based aid and less on non-need-based aid.
Los opositores a la nueva ley dicen que esta permitirá a la empresa privada acceder a fondos públicos y beneficiarse con el presupuesto de la universidad nacional.
Entre las IES privadas con distintas certificaciones, tanto nacionales como internacionales de calidad, se ubican la Universidad de las Américas Puebla (Udlap) y la Universidad Popular Autónoma de Puebla (UPAEP).
Las elecciones para el representante de las universidades privadas ante el Consejo de la Magistratura, que debía realizar Derecho UC fueron suspendidas, tras un amparo promovido por UniNorte.
Hoy se realizará una reunión plenaria del Consejo de Rectores de Universidades Privadas (CRUP), del que participarán el ministro de Educación, Alberto Sileoni, y el secretario de Políticas Universitarias, Martín Gill. Durante el encuentro, que se hará en el campus Pilar de la Universidad Austral, se presentará a los nuevos miembros del consejo (los rectores de Isalud, Blas Pascal, Austral e Instituto de Salud Mental), se analizará el rol de la universidad privada en la reforma judicial y se evaluarán estrategias a desarrollar junto al Consejo Interuniversitario Nacional (CIN).
Professor David Millar, immediate past Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University for Development Studies, said government’s decision to bring private universities into the tax net would marginalise students from the three northern regions.
Tucked into a defense-spending bill that the Senate Appropriations Committee approved on Thursday are a pair of provisions that would bar colleges from...
Over 100 private non-minority and minority engineering colleges in the state, which offer post-graduate courses, may be asked to surrender 65 per cent and 50 per cent of their seats to the government’s single window counselling for post-graduate courses from next year.
Yet Jay Bilas — former “student-athlete” and current ESPN broadcaster — called out the NCAA, just like he did Crow’s battle against for-profit universities like Grand Canyon University. Bilas went to the NCAA’s official website, typed in the surnames of various college stars and found he could buy their replica jerseys for as much as $179.95.
John Robinson, a local attorney and president of the Charleston School of Law Alumni Board, fondly remembers the closeness he enjoyed with faculty and fellow students as a member of the private law school's inaugural class of '07. With almost all of the courses being taught in a building on King Street, the students jokingly referred to the law school as a "one-room schoolhouse."
Woodbury-based Globe University must pay a former dean almost $400,000 in damages, a jury in her Washington County District Court whistleblower trial found Thursday.
Heitkamp, a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs, said she is also concerned about the high percentage of student debt that is privately financed, and that about 47 percent of defaults on student loans come from students of for-profit institutions