Violent scenes were witnessed at the MES Raja Residential School, Kalanthode near Chathamangalam in the district, where the entrance examination for admission to the member colleges of the Kerala Private Medical College Management Association (KPMCMA) was held on Friday amidst strong protest from different students’ organisations.
A committee headed by the district collector recently found a full-time lecturer at a government college practising at a private hospital and also claiming non-practise allowance given to doctors for refraining from private practice. Following the incident, the committee is all set to launch a drive across the district to identify such bogus practitioners and clinics.
The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research has cautioned students and parents against 'exploitation' by some private institutions and education centers that allegedly offer training for the CEPA exam or even claim their possession of the exam.
Head of Higher Education Commission, Member of Parliament Abed Thiyab Al Oujayli, called upon the Ministry of Higher Education on Thursday May, 30 to cancel the central exams for senior-years students in private colleges; and demanding to inform these universities straight away to have enough time to prepare correctly for exams.
ITT Educational Services (ESI) provides technology-oriented undergraduate and graduate education through its ITT Technical Institutes and Daniel Webster College.
American Commercial Colleges Inc. has agreed to pay the United States at least $1-million over the next five years to settle a whistle-blower lawsuit accusing it of defrauding the government, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday.
The latest enrollment figures from for-profit colleges suggest that damning publicity over their business practices, as well as tighter government regulations that followed it, has done deep and long-lasting damage to the industry. Forecasts for the five biggest publicly-traded schools now call for revenue declines to continue at least through fiscal 2014. Share prices are down between 32% and 86% in the past two years, turning some once-heady investments into major losers, as seen in a stock chart.
Developers seeking city financing for projects that include for-profit colleges will face new standards under a proposal recommended for approval Tuesday by the Milwaukee Common Council's Zoning, Neighborhoods and Development Committee.
The leading lights of the for-profit higher education sector might be unfairly stereotyped as hard-nosed types. Meanwhile, people from Yorkshire have been unfairly stereotyped as keeping a particularly tight rein on their finances.
Corinthian Colleges operates in an industry criticized for deceptive marketing and low graduation and job placement rates. Why would two respected public figures join its board?
Attorney General Lisa Madigan today urged U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to strengthen oversight of for-profit colleges and filed comments with the Department of Education in support of requiring schools to ensure students can pay off their loans and to make more accurate and complete disclosures about their job placement rates.
A state bill to increase grant aid to middle-income college students would ease student debt burdens and benefit the region, the presidents of three local private colleges and the head of a state association of independent schools said during a Times-Tribune editorial board meeting on Thursday.
The Legislative Assembly on Thursday passed the Karnataka Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission and Fixation Fee) (Special Provisions) Bill, 2013, that provides recognition for the consensual agreement proposed to be entered in to between the State government and the private unaided educational institutions imparting professional educational courses for 2013-14 academic year.
Vocational education providers appear to be another victim of the Gillard government's push against foreign workers after it failed to implement a promise to streamline visas for overseas students.
The Kerala Private Medical College Management Association (KPMCMA) on Friday decided to withdraw from the agreement it had entered into with the state government for admission to merit and management quota seats in colleges run by it.
In a major crackdown on private institutes, the government has ordered criminal proceedings against Sri Naryana, Sri Chaitanya and Sri Gayatri junior colleges, three most popular corporate groups for running intermediate classes which the Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) does not recognize.
The government will bring an ordinance to make it mandatory for private colleges in the country to seek the approval of the All India Council for Technical Education for running postgraduate Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Computer Application (MCA) courses.
Northwestern College, the second oldest private, two-year college in Illinois, announced that its Board of Directors this past quarter voted not to increase tuition for the 2013-2014 academic year. This is the second year in a row that the Board has chosen not to increase tuition, despite a challenging economic climate. Consequently, the costs per credit hour in the upcoming year will remain the same as those assessed two years ago during the 2011-2012 academic year.
A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Madras high court to direct the private dental colleges to ensure and conduct admission of students to the postgraduation courses strictly as per the laws and regulations based on the merit-based rank list published by the Director of Medical Education (DME) and consequently direct the state government to monitor and supervise the admission process to ensure proper transparent and merit-based admission.