The final result is a toss-up in a study comparing how for-profit and nonprofit colleges stack up in job market returns of their certificates and associate degrees. That finding is a big shift from the unflattering conclusion about for-profits reached in an earlier version of the paper.
When FRONTLINE viewers last saw Sgt. Chris Pantzke, he was struggling to deal with the fallout from signing up for courses at a for-profit college that he couldn’t complete.
Forty-four percent of for-profit private institutions have higher rates of students who default on loans than students who actually graduate college, a new report shows.
Ann Arbor's University of Phoenix campus is in the process of shuttering and is not accepting new students, although the closing will likely take at least a year, according to a school official.
La flamante facultad de Medicina del Instituto Universitario de Ciencias Biomédicas de Córdoba (IUCBC), promovida por la Fundación para las Ciencias Biomédicas de Córdoba (Fucibico) y en convenio con el Instituto Ferreyra y el Hospital Privado, abrió ayer las inscripciones para la carrera de Medicina que comenzará a dictarse en 2014.
I have tried to highlight the tragic condition of our Universities in Nigeria. The entrance of private Universities is a welcome development. However, NUC must become more vigilant in how these Universities deal with issues of national integration, regional and ethnic chauvinism and how these institutions contribute to the ideals of national unity. To do this, the NUC must try to lead the way by providing standards for the choice of members of the various layers of authority in the Universities. I want to conclude by making the following observations.
The city's premier academic organization, Deccan Education Society (DES), has decided to move a proposal to the state government to set up a private university under the government's model guidelines to set up such self-financed universities.
Unhappy over the Supreme Court verdict scrapping common entrance tests to medical colleges, India's Health Ministry is contemplating moving a review petition.
The debate over for-profit higher education is heating up again. And while much of the criticism revived here by Democratic politicians is unlikely to lead to policy changes, at least some action appears likely in two areas in coming months.
The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation into Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania on Friday, reviewing allegations that the private liberal arts school has failed at handling sexual misconduct on campus and retaliated against sexual assault survivors.
Supreme Court said that MCI has no power to conduct a single common entrance test for medical admissions across the country. Private medical colleges can conduct their own entrance tests. Supreme Court cancelled NEET and central government is planning to file a review petition. Nearly 115 petitions were filed in Supreme Court challenging NEET.
A joint degree run by New York University (NYU) and the National University of Singapore (NUS), awarding a master of laws degree from both universities, had benefited just nine Singaporeans since the one-year postgraduate degree was launched in 2007, Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang revealed last week.
La ministra de Educación, Carolina Schmidt, se reunió con los rectores de los planteles privados que no pertenecen al Consejo de Rectores de la Universidades Chilenas (Cruch), para dar a conocer los lineamientos de los cambios que se discuten para implementar en materia de institucionalidad, supervisión y aseguramiento de la calidad de la educación superior.
For the first time in the history of medical education in the country, the government has approved a proposal to allow extra MBBS seats to all public and private medical colleges this year.
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.
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.
In a setback for private engineering colleges in the state, the AP high court on Tuesday rejected their plea seeking permission to charge fee higher than that was fixed by the Admission and Fee Regulatory Committee (AFRC).
Students backed by the Inter University Students Federation (IUSF) took to the streets this week protesting against moves to restrict ‘free education’ in the country, by promoting private educational institutions.
The second try was the trick for Ashford University, which earned its regional accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges after being rejected one year ago.
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.