The Milwaukee Common Council on Tuesday unamimously approved standards for for-profit colleges and for developers who seek to use for-profit colleges to anchor property developments.
In absence of any response shown by the private universities on issue of admission to technical courses, the MP Private Universities’ Regulatory Commission has decided that it would not conduct the admission process for universities this year.
The High Court on Friday directed the Kerala Private College Medical Managements Association to file a counter affidavit on a petition filed by the state government seeking to postpone the entrance test in colleges under the association.
The sort of people who go through business school, one might think, would have no problem with the idea of education being provided for a profit. But when Thunderbird, a struggling school based in Arizona, announced three months ago that it was planning a partnership with Laureate, an education company, there was uproar among its alumni and students. A petition calling for the deal to be halted has won almost 2,000 signatures. By “selling out”, Thunderbird’s management is diluting the school’s brand and cheapening its degrees, it says.
The University Grants Commission has cautioned students that no university, whether Central, State, private or deemed can offer its programmes through franchisee arrangement with private coaching institutions even for distance mode courses. The commission in a recent notification advised students not to take admission in unapproved study centres, off campus centres, franchisee institutions, colleges / institutions claiming to be affiliated with private universities or deemed universities.
Columbia University has the highest tuition in the country, according to the federal government. The U.S. Department of Education’s (DOE) annual College Affordability and Transparency Center report examined public and private colleges and universities across the country and ranked them based on the cost of tuition and the net price of attendance.
Palo Alto University (PAU), a private non-profit higher education institution, announced today it is launching its bachelor’s degree completion program at College of San Mateo (CSM) starting fall 2013.
On the issue of setting up of 20 new private universities, Mr. Deshpande said a three-member official committee has been set up to monitor the availability of infrastructure and quality of education in private universities.
The vice chancellors also recommended that the private higher education institutions, which are being run under trusts on non-profit basis, should be exempted from the taxes. The committee appreciated the higher education allocations to the sector and termed it a very positive change in the education sector.