The final result is a toss-up in a study comparing how for-profit and nonprofit colleges stack up in job market returns of their certificates and associate degrees. That finding is a big shift from the unflattering conclusion about for-profits reached in an earlier version of the paper.
When FRONTLINE viewers last saw Sgt. Chris Pantzke, he was struggling to deal with the fallout from signing up for courses at a for-profit college that he couldn’t complete.
Forty-four percent of for-profit private institutions have higher rates of students who default on loans than students who actually graduate college, a new report shows.
Ann Arbor's University of Phoenix campus is in the process of shuttering and is not accepting new students, although the closing will likely take at least a year, according to a school official.
The debate over for-profit higher education is heating up again. And while much of the criticism revived here by Democratic politicians is unlikely to lead to policy changes, at least some action appears likely in two areas in coming months.
The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation into Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania on Friday, reviewing allegations that the private liberal arts school has failed at handling sexual misconduct on campus and retaliated against sexual assault survivors.
La flamante facultad de Medicina del Instituto Universitario de Ciencias Biomédicas de Córdoba (IUCBC), promovida por la Fundación para las Ciencias Biomédicas de Córdoba (Fucibico) y en convenio con el Instituto Ferreyra y el Hospital Privado, abrió ayer las inscripciones para la carrera de Medicina que comenzará a dictarse en 2014.
I have tried to highlight the tragic condition of our Universities in Nigeria. The entrance of private Universities is a welcome development. However, NUC must become more vigilant in how these Universities deal with issues of national integration, regional and ethnic chauvinism and how these institutions contribute to the ideals of national unity. To do this, the NUC must try to lead the way by providing standards for the choice of members of the various layers of authority in the Universities. I want to conclude by making the following observations.
The city's premier academic organization, Deccan Education Society (DES), has decided to move a proposal to the state government to set up a private university under the government's model guidelines to set up such self-financed universities.
Unhappy over the Supreme Court verdict scrapping common entrance tests to medical colleges, India's Health Ministry is contemplating moving a review petition.
Supreme Court said that MCI has no power to conduct a single common entrance test for medical admissions across the country. Private medical colleges can conduct their own entrance tests. Supreme Court cancelled NEET and central government is planning to file a review petition. Nearly 115 petitions were filed in Supreme Court challenging NEET.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
La Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera se sitúa a la cabeza de las 23 universidades privadas españolas, según diversos rankings internacionales que evalúan la calidad de la investigación científica de las universidades.
En su informe final, manifestó que el proyecto garantizará la calidad educativa, y recordó que varias universidades privadas están cerrando porque tienen una carencia de calidad tremenda.
Instituciones educativas privadas de nivel superior argumentan no tener problemas en las inscripciones de estudiantes de nuevo ingreso a pesar de la crisis económica que atraviesa este país.
An improving job market and a smaller population of traditional college-aged people have resulted in the first significant drop in college enrollment since the 1990s.
Career Education Corp. has begun one of higher education’s broadest experiments with adaptive learning. Institutions in the for-profit chain have powered more than 300 online course sections with the emerging technology, and enrollments in those courses have topped 11,000 students.
Strong and growing support from Arizonans helped push revenue sharply higher for Grand Canyon University’s parent company during the second quarter, the company reported Tuesday.
El vicepresidente de RN emplazó a su competidor en Santiago Oriente a que transparente el origen del financiamiento de su campaña, sindicando a los dueños de universidades privadas como sus grandes colaboradores.
Aurora University, North Central College and dozens of other private universities across Illinois found out Wednesday that they were receiving millions in state aid under a capital construction program that is helping private colleges and universities pay for campus upgrades and improvements.
Given the pathetic record of so many for-profit colleges, one might think that members of Congress would agree that the industry needs more oversight – especially since those schools eat up about one-fifth of the available federal student aid.
The Department of Higher Education has decided to revive the Service Selection Board (SSB) to look after recruitment of teachers for non-government colleges. The decision has received the State Government’s approval as well.
It's a good time to be an investor in the NASDAQ-traded company with the ticker symbol LOPE. As of Friday its share price had risen more than 48 percent this calendar year, and more than 80 percent over the past 12 months. In its first quarter earnings call held May 7, a Deutsche Bank analyst asked the company's CEO how a recent initiative might affect its marketing strategy going forward.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Holly Petraeus goes on the attack, saying a federal rule encourages for-profit colleges to exploit veterans. Federal aid can make up no more than 90 percent of a for-profit college's revenue. But veterans' benefits don't count. In testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Petraeus will say the rule gives "some for-profit colleges an incentive to see servicemembers as nothing more than dollar signs in uniform and to use some very unscrupulous marketing techniques.”
A subsidiary of Barnes & Noble has been chosen to run Hawaii Pacific University’s bookstores in Downtown Honolulu and at its Hawaii Loa campus in Windward Oahu, the state’s largest private university said Tuesday.
Faculty salaries at public universities are failing to keep pace with private colleges and industry, surveys show — and that reflects South Dakota’s reality, too, though not necessarily the dire consequences.
As part of its “Decision Makers 2013″ project, The National Journal selected 250 top Obama-administration officials and identified the colleges and universities where they received their undergraduate and graduate degrees. In that sample, it found that graduate degrees from the University of Oxford were more common than graduate degrees from any American public university. Harvard University was the top-ranked institution in both the graduate and undergraduate categories. Over all, four out of 10 officials in the group earned an undergraduate or graduate degree from an Ivy League institution.
Two things are sure to push us into exasperation mode – Delhi University’s near impossible cut-offs and the big question as to why our universities don’t find a mention in the world’s top 200 universities. Instead of rolling their eyes, a group of academicians and entrepreneurs have decided to set things right and offer a respite from platitudinous learning. Ashoka University, which is set to take off in August 2014 from the National Capital Region, promises high-quality, top-notch liberal education, banking heavily on private philanthropy.
Thank you for encouraging families to use 529 plans in planning and saving for college. The fact that you write about them every couple of years is terrific. I wanted to be sure you were aware of our unique 529 plan, Private College 529.
Despite the case about filling of engineering seats under the management quota pending before the HC, admissions-starved private college managements in the state are trapping Eamcet-qualified candidates, assuring them of a seat in B-Category and asking them to submit their original certificates.
Student activists of the Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) blocked traffic on National Highway 66 at Nantoor here on Friday in protests against the State government’s order allowing private colleges to collect “excess” fees.
The Supreme Court today scrapped holding of a single common entrance test (NEET) for admission to MBBS, BDS and post-graduate courses in all medical colleges, paving the way for private colleges to conduct their own examination.
Last week, Gov. Bill Haslam and Bob Mendenhall, president of Western Governors University, officially launched a new higher-education choice for Tennesseans: WGU Tennessee.
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 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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
La Corte de Apelaciones desestimó la solicitud de tres universidades de no hacer públicos los antecedentes de sus acreditaciones. En este contexto, estudiantes de universidades privadas hacen hincapié en la necesidad de organizarse, fortaleciendo así la democracia interna de sus instituciones.
The federal government should have no role in trying to make college affordable, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) said, backing legislation that would prevent the Obama administration from enforcing new rules on for-profit colleges.
After dismissing claims that Kaplan University defrauded the government, a federal judge expedited briefing for Kaplan's accuser to abate that final judgment.
David Willetts should be lauded for his support for the expansion of private higher education in Britain, which is providing students with greater choice and flexibility in how and where they study. At the same time, rigorous new standards mean that, regardless of where they study, the common denominator will always be, as he says, “top quality higher education”.
It sure seems ironic that the Pac-12 Conference and Arizona State President Michael Crow are targeting Grand Canyon University’s move to NCAA Division I status.
House Education Committee Chairman Rep. John Kline, who saw a dramatic upsurge in campaign contributions from for-profit colleges in recent months, is pushing legislation that would help the industry preserve its access to federal student loans.
Guidelines issued by staff at the Center for Academic Studies in Or Yehuda's education school ahead of summer semester deemed problematic as nearly 30 percent of the students in the program are Arabs.
After a four-year hiatus, the private university bill is back in the reckoning. The trigger: a proposal by a top Delhi-based varsity to set up a centre in the State was shot down by the AP State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE) citing UGC norms.
The costs of higher education are growing much faster than inflation. The average price for tuition, fees, room and board at a private institution averages nearly $24,000, or almost half of what the average family brings in each year.
AP has 6,200 students studying in 26 private medical colleges and 16 government colleges. According to Medical Council of India rules, one cadaver is required for 12 students. However in reality, more than 25 students crowd around one body. Private colleges get bodies on a rotational basis due to the existing scarcity.
The Council Chairman of the Presbyterian University College of Ghana, Sam Okudzeto says it is “misplaced”, “unfair”, “unreasonable” and “unethical” for private universities to be taxed.
A minister in the Virbhadra Singh cabinet in Himachal Pradesh has raised questions over the functioning of private universities in the state by blaming them of degrading and commercializing the education.
There had been many complaints against the private colleges in the state this year for indiscriminate sale of MBBS seats under the management quota by collecting hefty donations. Worse still, many meritorious students seeking admissions under the management quota were denied applications. Sources said that the raids unearthed hundreds of crores of rupees collected as donations and capitation fees.
The proprietors of private universities in Nigeria are clamouring for financial support from the federal and state governments. They argue that they are playing an identical role to public universities in producing much-needed skills for the country, and thus deserve state funding.
In stark violation of the Punjab Private Universities Policy-2010, the DAV University here has started admitting students without obtaining “mandatory” approval from the University Grants Commission (UGC) to run different courses while its academic session starts on August 1.
From the academic session 2013-14, Himachal Pradesh Private Educational Institutions Regulatory Commission (HPPERC) would grant approvals to courses by private universities in the hill state.
JCT director Petronella Nyamapfene said the trust was focusing on private colleges because there was growing concern over the welfare of children in these institutions.
The State government will upload a list of private professional colleges falling under various categories based on the ceiling it had set for additional fee collection on Tuesday, which coincides with the deadline for paying the fees and reporting to the colleges for Common Entrance Test (CET) rank holders.
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.