The 'Forum for Fairness in Education' has decided to file a contempt case against the state government for violating the apex court's order on private medical and dental college seats. The SC directive states that private medical and dental colleges have to surrender vacant seats to the government after the second round of admission. The government can allot these seats to meritorious candidates.
The agenda of the session also includes discussion on developing the programmes of higher education institutions, particularly the criteria governing licences for the opening of private higher education institutions and tie-up with academic institutions abroad. Shaikh Khalid bin Hilal al Maawali, Chairman of Majlis Ash’shura, encouraged the members to engage in objective discussion with the minister to highlight areas of challenge and help promote the government’s efforts to develop the higher education sector.
Twenty-seven students who took admission in various private engineering colleges directly after Odisha joint entrance examination (OJEE) counseling was over last year stand to lose their seats. The government has decided to withdraw their admission rights and not allow them to appear the semester examinations of Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) beginning from Saturday.
Nine private colleges in Eastern Visayas region were allowed by the Commission on Higher Education (Ched) to increase their school fees for school year 2013-2014.
Beginning in the 1970s, Apollo Group, Inc. founder, John Sperling, pioneered an unprecedented growth of the for-profit education industry in the United States, from a sleepy group of privately owned trade schools, to today's more behemoth publicly traded operators.
Adamson University topped the list of the 354 private schools which posted the highest increase in tuition at P131.19 per unit followed by Ateneo de Manila University at P118.25, Miriam College Foundation, P117.15, Dela Salle University, P106.20 and University of Sto. Tomas, P71.16, among others, that were allowed by the Commission on Higher Education.
Even as increasing number of engineering seats are going vacant every year, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Maharashtra government have given a nod to many private colleges to increase their intake capacity. About 800 seats will be added to colleges under Nagpur University this academic year, though around 7,000 seats were left vacant in the last academic year.
The minister of Higher Education, Adao do Nascimetno today in Kuito, Bie, hailed the initiative and efforts of institutions that want to boost higher education in the province, as they will contribute to local development.
The minister of Higher Education, Adão do Nascimento, exhorted on Saturday in the central Huambo province the private higher education institutions of this region to increase their performance, aiming to promote the quality of scientific and technology training.
On Tuesday, Gov. Rick Scott's offices sent out a news release that declared, "Gov. Scott Announces Anthem Education Expansion in Fort Lauderdale, 70 New Jobs."
El Gobierno de Cantabria ha aprobado el proyecto de ley por el que se reconocerá y se creará la primera universidad privada de Cantabria, que es la promovida por la Fundación Universitaria Iberoamericana (Funiber) en Cantabria, que, se denominará Universidad Europea del Atlántico y, en su inicio, impartirá catorce enseñanzas de Grado y dieciséis Máster.
Armenia’s Ministry of Education and Science is to inspect the private universities starting from the next week. The inspection is to check whether the universities comply with new law “On licensing”, Minister Armen Ashotyan said Wednesday.
Davis, then a senior at Liberty High School, knew — because her middle-class parents had said so, many times — that she needed a lot of financial help. She applied for 68 scholarships. She got three.
The NSW Teachers Federation and Unions NSW on Friday launched their Stop Tafe Cuts campaign, claiming plans to increase competition between public and private training providers for funds would see the deterioration of quality education.
But in Augusta, it’s the for-profit private schools that are raking in taxpayer dollars, charging a tuition that in some cases is five times higher than the area’s larger public universities and colleges.
The Tanzania Commission for Universities, or TCU, has finally acted against a branch campus of Uganda’s Kampala International University, ordering the Dar es Salaam-based institution to stop offering masters and doctoral courses.
Small cap for-profit education stock Career Education Corp. (CECO) has one big advantage over both public and private schools plus it may have made a key reversal on the charts.
El Rector de la Universidad de Chile planteó sus reparos a la propuesta del ministerio de Salud de suprimir el Examen Único Nacional de Conocimientos de Medicina (Eunacom), "es inaceptable en momentos en que los Tribunales de Justicia están investigando delitos vinculados a acreditaciones de universidades privadas”, sostuvo.