The state government has decided to take control of vacant medical college seats after two rounds of admissions. The move comes in the wake of malpractices by private medical colleges last year.
The Young Doctors Association (YDA), Pakistan, has said that due to alleged negligence of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC), 26 private medical and dental colleges have not created seats for postgraduate training in their respective teaching hospitals.
The private medical college managements in Andhra Pradesh have agreed not to hike fee structure for the current academic year 2013-14, provided the state government do not interfere with the admission procedure of management quota seats in the state.
As many as 456 tribal students have been admitted to class XI of private colleges with hostel facilities under a special scheme of the state government, for which the colleges would be given Rs 50,000 per annum per student. Admissions of another 294 students were finalised recently. The total number of students included 160 from the district.
The Young Doctors Association (YDA) has asked the government to force private medical colleges and hospitals to comply with regulations stating that they must create seats for postgraduate training and provide free treatment to 50% of their patients.
A demand-supply mismatch for undergraduate courses in Delhi University has created a windfall for private universities and institutes in the region. This year, the increase in number of applicants hit a new high of 43%. Nearly 2.5 lakh students have applied for 54,000 seats, and the admission process is still on.
As the admission season is on, city private colleges are making huge money by just selling out their prospectus. A student applying for two or more colleges has to shell out anywhere from Rs. 1,200 to Rs. 1,500.
The dismal situation of Nagpur University prompted the first question in the discussion: What caused this fall in standard of the hallowed institution? Former vice-chancellor Haribhau Kedar began by blaming those at the helm for not implementing the rules that make up this system.
Not only corporate schools, even private colleges offering graduate courses have been operating branches after securing permission in a different address in SPSR Nellore district. Many colleges are flouting norms and some of them offering laptops and other sops to fill the seats, this academic year.
Four new medical colleges in the state — three in the private sector and one in the government sector —have been rejected by the Medical Council of India for the year 2013-14 as they failed to meet the stipulated norms on faculty and infrastructure facilities.
Management colleges in the state are facing severe student crunch. Thirty-four private management colleges, affiliated to Rajasthan Technical University (RTU), have shut shop in this academic year and the remaining others struggle to survive due to poor student response.
In a move to ensure there are fewer irregularities in the admission process to private medical colleges this year, the state government has issued an order clarifying that these colleges will have to surrender to the government, seats left vacant after the second round.
After hearing that William Peace University might put a large chunk of its $35 million endowment into neighboring real estate, I decided to take a look at other university endowments to see how they compare.
As if the problems regarding unapproved MBBS seats were not enough, the Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Sidda and Homeopathy (AYUSH) institutions in the state too are under scanner. As many as 36 private AYUSH colleges have not been accorded recognition by the Central Council for Indian Medicine (CCIM) for the 2013 admissions.
For those aspiring for government quota seats in private colleges to pursue Master of Business Administration (MBA) course in Karnataka, admissions may not be possible just by clearing the entrance exam, if representatives of some B-schools have their way.
The government is signing an agreement with private colleges on seat-sharing in the next couple of days. "The fee structure remains the same as last year," he added.
The country's first and only private open agriculture university, which began functioning here in January this year, has opened its doors for farmers offering them courses without any age bar and qualification restriction.
Students in private universities taking courses not approved by the Commission for University Education (CUE) have recently learnt, to their utter dismay, that they cannot get help from the campuses to resolve the problem, because CUE’s bark is louder than its bite.
The Tripura government has decided to reject degree and diploma certificates issued by study centres of private universities and educational institutions of other states, officials here said Thursday.
The government should look to private higher education and TAFEs if it still hopes to achieve its 40 per cent participation target, says researcher Daniel Edwards.
Call it soul drain. Private theological colleges may shepherd their students all the way through a masters degree, only to see them go elsewhere for a PhD.
Two panels examining the education standards of SC/STs and OBCs have urged the Centre to enact a law to implement admission quotas for them at private institutions of study.
Central funding under Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) would also be made available to private institutions based on certain criteria, the HRD ministry said.
A federal appeals court on Monday reinstated a federal False Claims Act lawsuit brought against ITT Educational Services, Inc. by a former enrollment official. A federal judge in Indiana dismissed the suit against the for-profit higher education provider last year, saying the court did not have jurisdiction because the plaintiffs in the case were not the original source of the allegations against the company, as is required under the false claims law. The court also slapped the plaintiffs with nearly $400,000 in fines for having brought, in the judge's words, a "frivolous" lawsuit.
The second try was the trick for Ashford University, which earned its regional accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges after being rejected one year ago.
Apollo Group (APOL), the for-profit education stock behind the University of Phoenix, made waves yesterday by announcing that Phoenix’s accreditation was reaffirmed through the 2022–23 academic year.
The government is set to decide whether to make BPP a university, creating the UK’s second for-profit institution with the title, just as its US parent company faces “adverse impact” from a sanction against one of its other institutions.
The owner of the US’ biggest for-profit university fears it could face reputational and financial damage from an accreditation dispute that is already being used by a British union to attack the UK’s leading for- profit college.
After the market closed Monday Apollo group released news that its University of Phoenix's accreditation had been "reaffirmed" for 10 years by the Higher Learning Commission, which grants accreditation to colleges.
The Thunderbird School of Global Management’s new joint venture with for-profit Laureate Education Inc. provides a $13 million cash investment to the Glendale business school and includes a $52 million sale-leaseback deal for its campus, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Chancellor University, a for-profit college based in Seven Hills, Ohio, that once faced extinction when it was known as the nonprofit Myers University, announced on Monday that it would close, according to The Plain Dealer of Cleveland.
If you want to be a White House intern, it helps to go to private school, preferably Ivy League, or have done something to help President Obama get re-elected.
In a setback for private engineering colleges in the state, the AP high court on Tuesday rejected their plea seeking permission to charge fee higher than that was fixed by the Admission and Fee Regulatory Committee (AFRC).
Local private higher learning institutions (IPTS) in Sabah are in a dilemma over issues which are hampering efforts to promote Sabah as a hub of education excellence.
For the first time in the history of medical education in the country, the government has approved a proposal to allow extra MBBS seats to all public and private medical colleges this year.
MCA Vice President, Gan Ping Sieu, urges the Ministry of Education to withdraw its decision to make Tamadun Islam a compulsory subject for all local students studying in private institutes of higher learning (IPTS) effective 1 September 2013.
With admissions to constituent colleges of Rajasthan University (RU) almost coming to an end, the left out students are now flocking private colleges of the city seeking admissions. Surprisingly, private colleges are now reporting higher percentage than in the previous cut-offs.
Mumbai university is considering taking over the administration of Lords Universal College, Kandivli, and Public Night College, Santa Cruz, for financial irregularities at these institutions.
Will any of the Capital Region's private institutions of higher learning get a share of 3 million square feet of tax-free space created by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's START-UP NY initiative?
Entrance examination to MBBS seats in management quota at Medical Colleges under the Kerala Private Medical College Managements Association (KPCMCA) will be held at Sacred Hearts College, Thevara on July 21 at 2 pm, under the supervision of Commissioner of Entrance examinations, said the Admission Supervisory Committee headed by Justice J M James.
With private colleges finding it hard to attract students, the Government First Grade College here has managed to pull students, who are thronging it to get admission to BCom and BA, particularly with English as major.
Berea College was once again America's least expensive private college or university in the 2011-2012 academic year, according to U.S. Department of Education.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Tuesday rejected private engineering colleges’ plea seeking permission to charge a fee higher than that fixed by the Admission and Fee Regulatory Committee (AFRC).
For many private colleges in the Northeast at least, changing demographics have compelled them to focus on new groups of potential students to starve off decline. First Generation Students (FGS) seem to many of these college's as magic bullets of sorts. If only they could attract FGS in enough numbers, keep them enrolled, maybe their financial woes would be solved. Now, many schools seek these students out for noble causes, for all the right reasons, and try to serve them well. But, still research shows that retaining these students is still a challenge.
A private engineering college in Jodhpur is flaunting the name of its former principal-cum-author in the admission brochure and uploaded the same on Rajasthan Technical University (RTU) web portal in a bid to attract students and to retain its affiliation. RTU web portal in a bid to attract students and to retain its affiliation.
Two panels have recommended an enactment of the law to make mandatory quota of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in private colleges.
Claiming that the online admission process remained complaint-free, the state government on Tuesday told the high court that the new system was introduced for transparency in the filling up of the management quota seats in private engineering colleges.
This means that the private medical colleges, which were enrolling students on the basis of their own entrance tests can only admit those students who had appeared in the NEET and secured at least 50% marks. However, since the apex Court interim order of May 13 allowed the declaration of results of MCI's NEET and also of tests by private medical colleges to facilitate the admissions for the current academic year, there is now more confusion sprouting.
The entrance test to fill 35% management quota seats in private medical colleges will be held on on July 21 in Ernakulam. This was announced by the admission supervisory committee (ASC), headed by justice J M James. The test conducted by private medical colleges on May 31 was cancelled by the committee citing question paper leak.
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Thursday issued a notice to Uttar Pradesh Police over alleged tardy investigation into the mysterious death of an MBBS student at a private college in Moradabad town.
Punjab technical education minister Anil Joshi on Thursday issued instructions to all government and private technical education institutes, including engineering colleges, polytechnics and industrial training institutes (ITIs), to take all preventive steps to ensure that new students are not subjected to harassment and ragging by seniors.
Students have begun to reconcile themselves to the confusion created following the allotment of private seats by the Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka (COMEDK) preceding the allotment of government quota seats by the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) this year.
A federal judge has granted class action status to a lawsuit charging that TIAA-CREF wrongfully retained investment income from the accounts of instructors at private colleges and universities around the country.
Himachal Pradesh government today decided that from academic session 2013-14, Himachal Pradesh Private Educational institutions Regulatory Commission (HPPERC) will grant approval to courses run by private universities.
An opposition MP today called on the education ministry to re-think its move to make Islamic Civilisation studies compulsory for local students in private universities.
Operators of private universities have voiced their concern over the move to make the Islamic and Asian Civilisation Studies (Titas) subject compulsory in private institutions of higher learning (IPTS).
If you thought not gaining admission in DU was the end of the world, think again. Delhi/NCR is home to a number of universities that offer programmes in almost all disciplines. Universities conducting distance learning along with private universities are also being sought after by many candidates . And the best part is that admissions are still on in most of them.
Students backed by the Inter University Students Federation (IUSF) took to the streets this week protesting against moves to restrict ‘free education’ in the country, by promoting private educational institutions.
The University of Management and Technology (UMT) has been awarded the top position in the general category of the private sector institutions in Punjab by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) in its ranking for the year 2013.
Surat Group, owners of the Nigerian Turkish Nile University (NTNU), have recorded another first in Nigeria as the four-year old institution held its maiden convocation for 77 students. Parents and guardians in their gay outfits watched with pride as their wards graduated from four years of hard work, luckily in an institution not encumbered by the incessant strikes the tertiary institutions in Nigeria are known for.
Felix Salmon, in his opinion piece, “Universities shouldn’t be tax exempt,” buries Cooper Union for the $18 million of “tax equivalency payments” it receives annually from a small square of land it owns underneath the iconic Chrysler Building in midtown Manhattan—money, Salmon says, that “would normally flow to New York City in the form of property taxes, but instead gets diverted to Cooper Union for its own uses.”
The DSI has so far revealed that World Peace University (WPU) has not been authorized by the Office of the Higher Education Commission (OHEC) to operate as a university under Section 10 of the Private Higher Education Institute Act.
The Maharashtra Government has given its final approval for setting up of private universities in the state. State Minister for Higher Education Rajesh Tope made this announcement on Monday and declared that five proposals have already come to the government asking permission to open private universities.
The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business will move its Asia Executive M.B.A. program from Singapore to Hong Kong, making it the latest institution to move a program away from the city-state after setting down roots there. The Singapore campus, which opened in 2000, will stop accepting executive M.B.A. candidates, though the university said in its announcement that it was exploring space options for holding some activities in Singapore after the program moves.
Los jóvenes que decidan estudiar en alguna institución de educación superior privada y que no ingresaron a la Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (UASLP), pueden hacer el cambio o revalidación de materias para ingresar a esta máxima casa de estudios en el semestre siguiente, siempre y cuando haya compatibilidad en los programas de estudio.
El desarrollo de los países del llamado primer mundo ha radicado a través de las décadas en que han apostado por la inversión en la educación y principalmente en la investigación. En Nicaragua, una de las principales problemáticas en las universidades es la escasa cultura investigativa, es por ello que una de las universidades privadas de la Asociación de Universidades Privadas de Centroamérica (Auprica), está desarrollando esfuerzos y ejercicios de investigación con sus estudiantes y docentes.
Este martes vence el plazo entregado por el Ministerio de Educación a las universidades privadas, para que hagan llegar sus alcances sobre el proyecto que busca crear la Superintendencia de Educación Superior.
La ministra de Educación, Carolina Schmidt, se reunió con los rectores de los planteles privados que no pertenecen al Consejo de Rectores de la Universidades Chilenas (Cruch), para dar a conocer los lineamientos de los cambios que se discuten para implementar en materia de institucionalidad, supervisión y aseguramiento de la calidad de la educación superior.
La Federación Universitaria Potosina (FUP) firmó un convenio de colaboración con 12 universidades privadas, a fin de que ofrezcan becas del 20 al 50 por ciento para algunos estudiantes que no sean admitidos en la Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí.
La gratuidad universal en la educación es una de las principales promesas de la campaña de Michelle Bachelet. En un comienzo, se pensó que los beneficiados serían los alumnos de las universidades tradicionales pero la ex presidenta aclaró que el objetivo es incluir también a los estudiantes de planteles privados.
En las próximas horas se abrirá el Programa Emergente de inscripción a las universidades privadas del país para los estudiantes que no lograron un lugar en las licenciaturas de la UNAM, el IPN y la UAM.
One consequence has been the expansion of private higher education options in Brazil. While private universities affiliated with the Catholic Church date back to the 1600s, they have, particularly since the 1990s, made significant strides in strengthening curricula and becoming more engaged at home and internationally. PUC-Rio, a Jesuit-affiliated university, has become one of the most internationally recognized institutions of higher education in Brazil. Mackenzie Presbyterian University, founded by an American attorney at the end of the 19th century, is another private not-for-profit institution that enjoys a strong reputation abroad. Additionally, Brazil has one of the world’s most important academic think tanks, Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV), which trains public and private sector managers, and also engages in world-class policy research, often in collaboration with some of the world’s top universities.
Last week, Gov. Bill Haslam and Bob Mendenhall, president of Western Governors University, officially launched a new higher-education choice for Tennesseans: WGU Tennessee.
Jennifer Kerr took a mighty leap of faith when she sued a for-profit college for misrepresenting what kind of degree she’d be earning and its value to her future. Tucked into her contract with Vatterott Educational Centers Inc. was a provision that, should she sue and lose, Kerr would be responsible for Vatterott’s legal costs.
The Higher Learning Commission (HLC) has reaffirmed accreditation for the University of Phoenix for 10 years, but has placed the Phoenix-based for-profit university, which operates in Colorado, on "notice" status for the next two years.
Despite Chancellor University's ongoing woes, particularly concerning its accreditation, the school's president, Bob Daugherty, had insisted in recent years that the institution formerly known as Myers University was poised to emerge as a leader in online business education.
The European Commission has started an infringement process against Slovenia, requesting that legislation be aligned with the European Union (EU) treaty and the Service Directive in the field of education. The issue is over access to Slovenia for education franchise operations.
A joint degree run by New York University (NYU) and the National University of Singapore (NUS), awarding a master of laws degree from both universities, had benefited just nine Singaporeans since the one-year postgraduate degree was launched in 2007, Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang revealed last week.
Distressed students and parents who have a rightful claim to the management quota allege the medical colleges are selling seats to the highest bidders in clear violation of MCI’s directive.
Private medical colleges in Andhra Pradesh are allowed to fill 25% of management quota seats. They are supposed to fill the seats in online method for transparency. When the students tried to download the application, it is showing that it will take 4381 years to download the application. Some private medical colleges are not allowing the students to download the application by increasing the size of it to 2,399 crore megabytes
Owners of private medical colleges in Punjab have asked the state government to increase the annual fee for the MBBS course as high as Rs. 10 lakh. At present, the fee for MBBS as well as BDS seats is Rs. 1.5 lakh per year.
The Supreme Court on Thursday scrapped the single common entrance test for admission to MBBS, BDS and post-graduate courses in all medical colleges, paving the way for private colleges to conduct their own examination.
The Supreme Court verdict striking down NEET (national eligibility cum entrance test) for medical admission has come as a body blow to opponents of reservation.
Private College Week runs July 29 through Aug. 1. The program invites all rising high school juniors and seniors to visit one of 24 private colleges across Virginia.
When Kelsey Hunt was mulling where to go to college, she considered a half a dozen institutions before deciding to attend Spring Arbor University when she becomes a freshman this fall.
Students across the country are up in arms after recent reports that hundreds of billions of won in college tuition was subsidizing the pensions of employees at some of the country's most expensive private universities.
The Supreme Court on Thursday quashed the single-window National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) dealing a body blow to uniform admission norms for MBBS, BDS and MD seats in all medical colleges and allowing private medical colleagues to frame their own admissions norms and charge, in many cases, stiff capitation fees.
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Educationists are caught in a minefield of conflicting opinion over the government's latest move to level the field between private and public universities.
The Supreme Court on Thursday quashed the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for admissions into all medical and dental colleges. The apex court ruled that the Medical Council of India cannot conduct a unified examination.