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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.