For India, where plenty of capacity has been created in higher education, quality of teaching should become the focus now, particularly in private sector institutions, according to Raghuram G. Rajan, Chief Economic Advisor, Union Ministry of Finance.
The rules required all private colleges to have “highly trusted sponsor” status with the UK Border Agency and to be reviewed by the Quality Assurance Agency. Legitimate private higher education providers embraced the regulations.
The U.S. Education Department has named negotiators to a panel that will rewrite its controversial "gainful employment" rule, and for-profit colleges are feeling outnumbered.
Kaplan’s fortunes are looking up. The education company no longer has to pick up the slack for The Washington Post, the venerable newspaper and loss leader that Kaplan’s corporate owner, the Washington Post Co., just sold off.
Though students have a reason to cheer with the state government waiving off the JEE condition for admission into BTech courses, colleges are far from having a sigh of relief.
A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Monday issued notice to the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) and University of Health Science on an application, challenging collection of Rs1,18,000 from students under the head of miscellaneous expenses by the private medical colleges.
Al mal tiempo, buena cara. Parece que así se lo proponen las universidades privadas y de la Iglesia, que confían en ofertas académicas actualizadas, más titulaciones dobles y en inglés el curso próximo, y becas propias para conservar o aumentar la fidelidad del alumnado en tiempos de crisis. Según la información recabada por Efe entre 17 de ellas, la matriculación se mantiene o sube, con alguna excepción.
Catorce universidades privadas de Mérida firmaron ayer un convenio de colaboración con la Secretaría del Trabajo para “romper el círculo vicioso que rodea a los recién egresados”.
The news that BPP has become the latest provider of legal education to slap a ‘university’ sticker on its for-profit business has not yet caused as much of a stir as when the College of Law adopted its University of Law moniker in November last year.
A division bench of MP high court has directed the state government to adhere to a 50:50 distribution ratio of post graduate seats in the state-run and private medical colleges. Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice Vimla Jain made it mandatory for the director, medical education to follow the directions during counseling for medical PG seats scheduled this month.
An Islamic studies and Asian civilisation course, compulsory for students in Malaysia’s public universities, will also be mandatory for all private university students – including those at foreign branch campuses – from 1 September.
With private universities emerging in the mid-1980s, Pakistan is a unique example of a system that dropped its dependence on public funding and universities were encouraged to generate their own funds. Country Director British Council Pakistan Peter Upton put forward an important question at the dialogue: is higher education a private commodity, given the decline in state funding?
For-profit colleges like the University of Phoenix, whose tuition generally falls between state institutions and private not-for-profit universities, were the first to offer large online degree programs. But for-profit enrollment has declined because of the recession, increased government scrutiny and Congressional hearings finding that their students had low graduation rates and high loan default rates. And with so many traditional institutions now offering online degrees, the for-profit colleges may have a tougher time attracting students.
Over the past several months, the credit ratings of several prestigious liberal arts colleges have been downgraded or assigned a negative outlook by Moody’s Investors Service.