Las instituciones agrupadas en el Movimiento de Estudiantes de Educación Superior Privada (Mesup) pidieron marchar por la alameda en dirección al Mineduc para dejar una carta dirigida a la ministra Carolina Schmidt. La Intendencia rechazó el recorrido.
Se dice que en la U. del Mar los propietarios sacaban el lucro mediante sociedades fraudulentas; las cosas fueron peores y en ellas participo el senador y autoproclamado candidato presidencial José Antonio Gómez.
One of the nation's premier private universities has agreed to recognize a pro-life student organization – but only after the palable threat of legal action. Johns Hopkins University had denied the petition of Voice for Life on March 12 and 26, but the university's Student Government Association (SGA) Judiciary Committee granted approval last night.
The Private Universities Students Association of Ghana (PUSAG) has called on the National Service Secretariat (NSS) to reconsider its intention of deploying national service personnel to direct traffic.
For prestigious private colleges, where donations that top $100 million are increasingly common, $15 million might buy naming rights to a new building or a laboratory. But for a community college, a donation of that size is both rare and transformative, and so New York’s newest community college is getting a new name: the Stella and Charles Guttman Community College.
The National Universities Commission (NUC), urged the Standing Committee on Private Universities (SCOPU) not to compromise standards in the discharge of its duties.
The state government on Wednesday indicated that it was open to initiating the process of derecognizing 17 private medical and dental colleges found to have violated norms during the admission process in 2012-13.
Downers Grove-based DeVry Inc., operator of private colleges and training schools, said in an SEC filing that its practices are being investigated by the attorneys general in Illinois and Massachusetts.
For-profit colleges expand access to higher education for some students who might not otherwise attend college, but the payoff can be meager. In fact, graduates of for-profit colleges' two-year programs earn about the same as those who ...
University of Indianapolis announced on Wednesday that it was no longer accepting new students to Indianapolis Athens College for the summer summer and that all undergraduate courses and most graduate courses would stop on August 31
Thursday’s education protest organized by the Student Federation of Private Universities (Mesup) ended in violent clashes after police attempted to prevent demonstrators from reaching the Education Ministry.
The majority of institutions on the global version of the list are private universities in the U.S., including Ivy League colleges such as Columbia, Yale, Cornell, Princeton and Brown.
Even as the state government has paved the way for the opening of private universities in Bihar, the higher education scenario is unlikely to change much. A vast majority of the state's youth would continue to receive their higher education in the existing colleges and universities which depend solely on government grants. And, the state exchequer would have to cough up big grants to these government-funded institutions.
Bihar State Private University Bill 2013 was passed on Tuesday by voice vote in the state assembly, clearing the deck for setting up of private universities and related institutions of higher learning in the state.
The higher-education company DeVry Inc. is facing inquiries from the offices of the attorneys general of Illinois and Massachusetts, according to a corporate filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
As many as 150 students of three private colleges, studying bachelor of dental studies (BDS), knocked the doors of Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya ( DAVV), blaming the authorities for poor results and assessment in internal examination here recently.
Uncertainty continues over the method of admission for MBBS and BDS courses in private medical colleges as they have advertised to conduct their own entrance tests. Things will depend on the Supreme Court verdict on whether the colleges will draw students from National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) or from their own entrance exam.
A group of 19 private colleges in Georgia have struck a deep transfer agreement with the state’s technical college system, guaranteeing admission to any student with a grade-point average of at least 2.5 and an associate of science or applied science from one of the state’s 25 technical colleges.
Among those seeking their help are private universities such as Amity University and NIIT University, school chains such as Indus World school, and education solution companies. The education sector has hitherto relied on word-of-mouth publicity to hire people.
The Office of Admissions at New York University fielded a flurry of calls from rejected applicants who just couldn’t understand why they didn’t get into the prestigious private university. Some played the race card. Others just called and cried.
The private university Act was enacted in 2007 to reduce the burden on state universities, but only 11 private universities could start ever since. The outcome is rising number of students continue to put a strain on government universities.
La Cámara de Diputados de Chile aprobó hoy una acusación constitucional contra el ministro de Educación, Harald Beyer, a quién la oposición señaló de no haber fiscalizado el lucro en las universidades privadas y de faltas a la probidad.
La bancada de diputados del PPD dijo que la nueva ministra de Educación, Carolina Schmidt, debe "escuchar las demandas ciudadanas para hacer las reformas que hacen falta" y "debe centrar su agenda poniendo especial énfasis en darle un fin efectivo al lucro en las universidades privadas".
Napoleon Melton Jr., 30, never imagined he would receive a degree from a for-profit university. From his senior year in high school on, he had daydreamed about earning an MBA from a traditional program.
Mount Kenya University deputy vice chancellor Evans Kerosi said the move will increase the number of students in private universities to be admitted through a joint admission board.
In what it characterizes as “a decidedly bold move,” Harrisburg University of Science and Technology is freezing its tuition at current levels for the 2013-14 school year despite “a climate where higher education costs continue to increase.”
Some student organisations and academics may oppose the setting up of as many as 17 new private universities in the State, but a few former Vice-Chancellors (VCs) have pledged their support for their establishment.
Swarthmore College announced this week that it would commission an external review of its policies and procedures for handling sexual misconduct on campus.
Some private universities and colleges in Cebu will be implementing tuition increases from 5 percent to 10 percent for the coming school year this June.
Even before the SSC examination results are out the corporate Intermediate colleges have already commenced classes for the first year Intermediate students in the name of bridge course, flouting the rules of the Board of Intermediate Education.
THERE will be a 10 per cent decrease in tuition fees at private and state-run universities for the 2013-2014 academic year, Minister of Education Kyriacos Kenevezos announced yesterday.
Khaled also said that there are 130,000 places available at the 37 private universities, 20 university colleges, 418 private colleges and seven international branch campuses in the country.
Several private colleges in the state have siphoned off crores of rupees of the government-sponsored post-matric scholarship scheme by faking identities of 25,000 poor students, a top higher education department official said.
Oklahoma lawmakers and higher education officials hailed an increase in degrees awarded by the state's colleges and universities as a testament to the strength of the partnership between the state higher education system and the private institutions around the state.
The Bangalore University Task Force has recommended the varsity not to approve admissions made by private colleges that do not have the university affiliation.
The state government on Wednesday withdrew its earlier bill on self-financed private universities to include 50% caste-based reservation. The bill was passed in the assembly in August 2011, but the governor had refused to sign it into law in the absence of the reservation clause. The amended bill is expected to be approved in the ongoing or monsoon session.
Decks have been cleared for private institutions to enter the field of higher education in Bihar with the state assembly passing the Bihar Private Universities Bill, 2013 on Tuesday.
The government of Sri Lanka says that private education is a necessity to meet the demands of the youth population in the country. Higher Education Minister S.B. Dissanayake said the government would support to develop private medical education in the country.
Receiving an increasing demand from students across the country, private universities have started the entrance exams in both offline and online formats.
US policymakers should not overlook the positive aspects of for-profit colleges, a study has argued. The report from the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a right- leaning thinktank based in New York, says that politicians - and journalists - are too quick to highlight for-profits’ poor graduation levels, higher loan default rates and patchy graduate employment record, while overlooking their strengths.
Students at West Michigan private colleges and universities will have to dig deeper into their pockets next fall to pay for school, as tuition is set to grow between 3.3 percent and 6.8 percent.
The non-aided D Ed colleges' management association has alleged that the recent move of issuing show-cause notices for compliance to the colleges was part of an official conspiracy to close down all non-aided private colleges imparting diploma courses in teaching.
Engineering aspirants' wait for clarity on fee structure in private colleges for various courses just got longer. The deadline set by the higher education minister to finalize fee of private engineering colleges under CET expired on Wednesday with the department of higher education remaining silent.
Some of Michigan’s private colleges are pushing for more racial and ethnic diversity, but are not necessarily actively seeking more religious diversity.
The questionable award of 66 PhDs at the Kampala International University in Uganda resulted from a failure by the institution to adhere to governance principles, an investigation by the independent Daily Monitor has revealed.
MPs and members of New Brunswick’s queer community are demanding answers after a private religious university that prohibits homosexual activity among employees was awarded $6 million in the federal government’s 2013 action plan.
Bihar State Private University Bill 2013 was passed on Tuesday by voice vote in the state assembly, clearing the deck for setting up of private universities and related institutions of higher learning in the state.