MCA Vice President, Gan Ping Sieu, urges the Ministry of Education to withdraw its decision to make Tamadun Islam a compulsory subject for all local students studying in private institutes of higher learning (IPTS) effective 1 September 2013.
With admissions to constituent colleges of Rajasthan University (RU) almost coming to an end, the left out students are now flocking private colleges of the city seeking admissions. Surprisingly, private colleges are now reporting higher percentage than in the previous cut-offs.
Mumbai university is considering taking over the administration of Lords Universal College, Kandivli, and Public Night College, Santa Cruz, for financial irregularities at these institutions.
Will any of the Capital Region's private institutions of higher learning get a share of 3 million square feet of tax-free space created by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's START-UP NY initiative?
Entrance examination to MBBS seats in management quota at Medical Colleges under the Kerala Private Medical College Managements Association (KPCMCA) will be held at Sacred Hearts College, Thevara on July 21 at 2 pm, under the supervision of Commissioner of Entrance examinations, said the Admission Supervisory Committee headed by Justice J M James.
With private colleges finding it hard to attract students, the Government First Grade College here has managed to pull students, who are thronging it to get admission to BCom and BA, particularly with English as major.
Berea College was once again America's least expensive private college or university in the 2011-2012 academic year, according to U.S. Department of Education.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Tuesday rejected private engineering colleges’ plea seeking permission to charge a fee higher than that fixed by the Admission and Fee Regulatory Committee (AFRC).
For many private colleges in the Northeast at least, changing demographics have compelled them to focus on new groups of potential students to starve off decline. First Generation Students (FGS) seem to many of these college's as magic bullets of sorts. If only they could attract FGS in enough numbers, keep them enrolled, maybe their financial woes would be solved. Now, many schools seek these students out for noble causes, for all the right reasons, and try to serve them well. But, still research shows that retaining these students is still a challenge.
A private engineering college in Jodhpur is flaunting the name of its former principal-cum-author in the admission brochure and uploaded the same on Rajasthan Technical University (RTU) web portal in a bid to attract students and to retain its affiliation. RTU web portal in a bid to attract students and to retain its affiliation.
Two panels have recommended an enactment of the law to make mandatory quota of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in private colleges.
Claiming that the online admission process remained complaint-free, the state government on Tuesday told the high court that the new system was introduced for transparency in the filling up of the management quota seats in private engineering colleges.
This means that the private medical colleges, which were enrolling students on the basis of their own entrance tests can only admit those students who had appeared in the NEET and secured at least 50% marks. However, since the apex Court interim order of May 13 allowed the declaration of results of MCI's NEET and also of tests by private medical colleges to facilitate the admissions for the current academic year, there is now more confusion sprouting.
The entrance test to fill 35% management quota seats in private medical colleges will be held on on July 21 in Ernakulam. This was announced by the admission supervisory committee (ASC), headed by justice J M James. The test conducted by private medical colleges on May 31 was cancelled by the committee citing question paper leak.
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Thursday issued a notice to Uttar Pradesh Police over alleged tardy investigation into the mysterious death of an MBBS student at a private college in Moradabad town.
Punjab technical education minister Anil Joshi on Thursday issued instructions to all government and private technical education institutes, including engineering colleges, polytechnics and industrial training institutes (ITIs), to take all preventive steps to ensure that new students are not subjected to harassment and ragging by seniors.
Students have begun to reconcile themselves to the confusion created following the allotment of private seats by the Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka (COMEDK) preceding the allotment of government quota seats by the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) this year.
A federal judge has granted class action status to a lawsuit charging that TIAA-CREF wrongfully retained investment income from the accounts of instructors at private colleges and universities around the country.