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.
The Admission Supervisory Committee for Professional Colleges, headed by former judge J.M. James, has annulled the entrance examination held in Kozhikode on May 31 for admission to the MBBS management seats offered by private and self-financing medical colleges in the State. The committee has found prima facie evidence of corruption and malpractice in the conduct of the test.
Primary education minister Sake Sailajanath directed officials to initiate stringent action against private colleges and schools if they were found violating norms and collecting exorbitant fees.
The state of student debt in California, especially at public universities, is better than the rest of the country. That doesn’t mean the situation is manageable for all student borrowers.
As many as eight private medical colleges in the state have withdrawn from the agreement they had entered with the government on seat sharing and decided to do away with 50% general category seats. In other words, any student who seeks admission to these colleges will now have to pay almost Rs 5 lakh as fees per annum, instead of the earlier subsidized fees of Rs 1,65,000/annum.
For private high schools, colleges and universities, survival is the name of the game when the roll-out of the K to 12 (kindergarten to Grade 12) reform is completed.
The cost of college here in the Hub is on the rise. Before you start the hemming and hawing, however, the “good news” is this: school officials are calling these increases among the lowest in recent history.
With nine Ford Family Foundation scholarship recipients bound for George Fox University in the fall, the Newberg, Ore., school ranks No. 1 among privates in attracting students who earned the highly competitive scholarship.
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.
The admission supervisory committee (ASC), headed by Justice J M James, on Thursday cancelled the entrance test by private medical colleges to fill 35% management quota seats, citing question paper leak. The exam will now be held on June 22.
Private colleges and universities can go ahead and implement their planned tuition increase this school year as the Supreme Court removed the legal barrier for its implementation.
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.
Hopeful of passing two pending Bills to check malpractices in institutes of higher learning, including private universities, Union Human Resource Development Minister M.M. Pallam Raju Friday sought cooperation of the state government to take punitive action against universities indulging in malpractices.
Even as the fake degree racket of Chandra MohanJha (CMJ) University is getting murkier and believed to have even crossed the country's frontiers, the University Grants Commission (UGC) that had granted it the status of an 'university' has failed to take any action till date. Senior officials from Nagpur University, who are now searching for the CMJU's beneficiary students in over 800 colleges in its jurisdiction, disclosed that the Delhi-based apex body had granted 'private' status to as many as 150 universities across the country. Of them about 20 were believed to have operating bogus degree racket through agents spread far and wide across the country.
Local colleges and universities are hiking tuition costs by an average of 3 to 4 percent for next year, with some school officials calling the increases among the lowest in recent history.
This year, colleges and private universities, in their bid to attract students in the upcoming “admission season’ have started to announce doles that range from free studies, attractive scholarships, bank loans and merit-based deduction in fee structure. While there are more than 16 private and deemed universities in Jaipur and a dozen of private colleges, it’s the latter that are more worried about filling up their seats.
Uncovered confidential contracts reveal that millions of dollars may have been illegally funneled from private universities to fund the success of a club soccer team.
Police are investigating an Indian university suspected of issuing fake PhDs after it awarded more than 400 doctorates in a single year, officers said Wednesday.
The Department of Higher Education and Training would like to place on record that Cida City Campus is a private higher education institution and as such is regulated by the department in terms of the Regulatory Framework for Private Higher Education Institutions so as to ensure that the post school system provides both youth and adults with opportunities to participate and gain an education to improve their lives and contribute towards the economic development of the country.
When Danielle Powell signed a statement agreeing to follow the rules outlined in the student handbook at Grace University, a small Bible college in Omaha, she had never dated a woman and had no particular plans to do so. As such, the prohibition on “sexually immoral behavior” including "homosexual acts" did not seem like an issue.
Singapore’s first US-style liberal arts college in collaboration with Yale University, set up at the National University of Singapore (NUS), has selected its first cohort of 157 students to start in August – after sifting through 11,400 applications from over 130 countries – the college announced last week.
Apollo Group Inc (NASDAQ:APOL), the for-profit education company that is the parent of University of Phoenix, looks like a great deal on the surface. At 7.9 times TTM earnings and over $1.2 billion in net cash, it almost looks like a “too good to be true” situation. It is. The company’s business model is no longer viable and I believe that Apollo’s recent downsizing efforts are just the beginning.
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.
Mitch Daniels is agnostic on the various delivery modes of higher education or the tax status of colleges offering them, as long as students are getting a quality education at an appropriate price.
Two Democratic senators used a Congressional hearing on Wednesday to condemn for-profit colleges as preying on active members of the armed forces to receive federal tuition aid by increasing enrollments but ignoring academic quality.
A Wells Fargo stock analyst, who boosts for-profit colleges while frequently overlooking their abuses, lays the blame for one particularly predatory college's high failure rate at the feet of low-income students, or, as he calls them, "subprime" students.
Shares of for-profit education companies traded mostly lower on Tuesday as Corinthian Colleges Inc. disclosed that it is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
He said government-aided private colleges and unaided private colleges would have to pay Rs. 3,000 per candidate to the university for additional seats sanctioned. This was not applicable to government colleges. The fee is being collected to check uncontrolled admissions, he said.
The world’s top 50 universities in engineering and technology in 2013 do not include any Indian university/college. The Higher Education World Reputation Ranking 2013 of top 100 institutions, has representation from all the BRIC countries, except India. We can conveniently blame it on bias, or simply ignore the global ranking. While the Government-run institutions have their share of challenges, the private institutes/universities, perceived to be a ray of hope, appear to be less interested in improving quality.
MC Nanaiah said while one college charged Rs10,000 for a course, another charged thrice that amount for the same course, affiliated to the same university.
For private high schools, colleges and universities, survival is the name of the game when the roll-out of the K to 12 (kindergarten to Grade 12) reform is completed.
Adjuncts at Pacific Lutheran University in Washington have the right to vote on whether to unionize, a regional National Labor Relations Board officer has ruled.
This contrast between elite private colleges and public schools should have reignited the debate over state aid. But that was effectively shut down 40 years ago when a federal Labor government began propping up poor Catholic schools until, over time, every private school was receiving grants.
Minister for medical education Kondru Murali and the managements of private medical colleges are engaged in a fight for control over the MBBS management quota seats ahead of the new admissions session. Of the 5,500 MBBS seats in 40 colleges in the state, 1,480 seats are in the management quota.
Stop Loyola College from admitting students for aided and unaided, undergraduate and post-graduate courses, as there is an apprehension that merit and reservation norms may not be followed during admissions, said a PIL filed in the Madras high court.
Here's some good news for engineering aspirants who are now eagerly waiting for the e-counselling to begin from June 20. The All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) has given a go-ahead to increase 1,400 seats in engineering courses across 80 private colleges, six government colleges and six universities after inspecting their infrastructure.
Troubled students of the controversial Nagpur College of Homeopathy can finally see light at the end of the tunnel. An order of the state government issued earlier this month has assured the students of admissions to other private colleges affiliated with the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS). The management of the college has to pay Rs 50,000 per student for the transfers.
The apex court bench of Justice Gyan Sudha Misra and Justice Madan B. Lokur said this on an application filed by NGO Sankalp, seeking direction that the private medical colleges which were enrolling students on the basis of their own entrance tests should admit only those students who had appeared in the NEET and secured at least 50 percent marks.
KPC Medical College and Hospital in Jadavpur, a private medical college, has issued a notification to conduct its own medical entrance examination for admission to MBBS course flouting the Supreme Court guideline.
The State government on Friday submitted before the Kerala High Court that if the Kerala Private Medical College Management Association (KPMCMA) backs off from the seat sharing agreement, it would become null and void. Any right or benefit by way of the said agreement will also cease to exist.
The notification for counselling for engineering and pharmacy courses is likely to be pushed further due to delay in fixing the fee structure in private colleges. The Admissions and Fee Regulatory Committee (AFRC) which was supposed to decide the fee structure for private colleges by June 12 has not announced a composite fee structure till date. The higher education department officials said notification for counselling will be announced only by next week and counselling likely to begin from June 26.
Of the 60 private colleges and universities in Western Mindanao, also called the Zamboanga peninsula, only 18 applied for tuition fee increase for school year (SY) 2013-2014. But the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) office in the region only approved 13 of these applications because the six others failed to fully comply with the agency’s guidelines.
Following criticism from various student unions on the 'extravagant publicity' and high tuition fees in private colleges, the government endorsed a code of conduct three months ago that imposes a ceiling on such advertisements--Rs 500,000 in maximum for colleges operating in the Valley, Rs 300,000 in Sub-Metropolitan Cities, Rs 150,000 in municipalities and Rs 50,000 in VDCs.
With the framing of the model guidelines for private self-financing universities and the proposed establishment of law universities in Aurangabad, Mumbai and the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIFT) in Pune and Nagpur, Higher and Technical Education Minister, Rajesh Tope, is betting big on the education scenario in Maharashtra.
All those eligible out of the nearly 1,600 students who applied for the management quota test on May 31 in eight colleges under the Kerala Private Medical College Management Association (KPMCMA) will be allowed to take the re-test being held by the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations (CEE) on June 22.
The Say Yes to Education program, noted for sending public high school graduates to college for free, has added five prestigious private universities to its list of destinations.
Weeks after the state government notified model guidelines for private institutions to set up universities, three big groups have put forward their proposals to the higher and technical education department.
With more seats on offer than the number of students available and to top it picking out meritorious ones from those who have qualified the Joint Engineering Entrance Examination (JEEE) has most of the private universities in a fix as there are not enough students to fill up the available seats.
However, the Kenya Association of Private Universities (Kapu) expressed concerns that by implementing the unit costing in public universities, fees charged in their institutions would be affected because of the forces of a free-market.
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 Girne American University, a private educational institution in Turkey, which was established in 1985, is recruiting students from Ghana and other African countries for its bachelors, masters and Phd degree programmes, this year.
The Bill proposing Bangalore University’s bifurcation, passed earlier this year, has been pending the Governor’s approval along with the Karnataka State Universities (Second Amendment) Bill, 2013. The Chancellor, however, had approved the Bills to establish private universities.
Increasingly, the country is appealing to private and international higher education providers to add to national capacity. The market is economically attractive to private higher education providers. But the doors for entry of foreign higher education institutions are still not fully opened. It could be useful to look at all means of partnerships at the government level.
The main trade association of for-profit colleges, APSCU, seems to exist for the purpose of protecting the worst, most abusive, most predatory conduct by its member companies. Why else would the association, once again last week, attack the U.S. Department of Education for seeking to implement a law that simply requires career colleges that receive federal aid to actually train students to earn a living? Why else would it send its CEO to offer wholly incredible comments before a Senate committee? And what was General Wesley Clark doing speaking at APSCU's annual convention?
Consumers Union, the policy and advocacy arm of Consumer Reports, is urging the Department of Education to strengthen oversight of for-profit colleges.
For example, the not-for-profit Regent’s College has become Regent’s University and the College of Law has become the University of Law, the UK’s first for-profit university.
The next few months should be a busy time for the U.S. Education Department. The administration is gearing up for several rounds of negotiations over possible new rules, including rewriting controversial regulations governing for-profit colleges. Congress is beginning the process of renewing the Higher Education Act. And in the days after President Obama won re-election, Education Secretary Arne Duncan promised an increased focus on higher education issues in the administration’s second term.
A veteran of for-profit higher education has built a new online learning portal, this time a nonprofit. And Michael K. Clifford’s DreamDegree.org, which went live last month, already offers 27 courses that can lead to college credit at many colleges.
San Diego’s Bridgepoint Education launched a voluntary buyout program for its Ashford University arm last week to cut staff on the eve of a critical accreditation decision for the college.
Private colleges currently charge an average of more than $30,000 a year, yet 2011 census results showed only half of American households earning more than $50,000.
The Kerala High Court, on Friday, directed the Kerala Private Medical College Managements Association to file a counter affidavit in response to the State government’s petition seeking permission to conduct fresh entrance test for admission to the management seats in self-financing colleges under the association on June 22.
Even as Chief Minister N Rangasamy is holding talks with the seven self-financing medical colleges in the Union Territory on sharing seats with the government, the AIADMK has urged the AINRC government to ensure that private medical colleges earmarked 50 per cent of the total seats in MBBS courses for students under the government quota.
As their demand for hiking the fees for undergraduate professional courses was shot down by the state government, private professional colleges in the state have hiked the price for management quota seats manifold. While some of the private engineering colleges in the state have stated charging about Rs 18 lakh for seats under the payment (management) quota, the amount seems to be on a continuous ascent.
Nonprofit colleges in the United States rarely "go out of business" both because demand for higher education services has been robust and because it's hard for nonprofits to go out of business. But St. Paul's College, a small historically black school in Virginia, is closing its doors this month and Moody's says it won't be the last to go.
Two bills that would exempt private colleges and universities from local zoning and planning requirements were tabled by the New Jersey State Assembly Budget Committee on Tuesday, eliciting a collective sigh of relief from concerned officials in Princeton.
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 Ontario Association of Career Colleges (OACC) presented a set of recommendations to enhance the Private Career Colleges Act review to the Minister of Training, Colleges, and Universities, the Honourable Brad Duguid, on Thursday.
Virginia Intermont College, a private liberal arts college in Bristol known for its equine program, is facing loss of accreditation because of financial instability.
In about a month's time, MBBS admission counselling dates would be announced but deals worth crores have already been inked between private college authorities and students for management quota seats at a time when the government is mulling introduction of an online application process to bring in transparency.
Under the scheme, private players who invest in setting up medical colleges in three divisions of the state — Devipatan, Basti and Mirzapur — will get capital subsidy up to Rs 20 crore. There are no medical colleges in these three divisions of eastern UP at present.
AIADMK on Friday urged the AINRC-ruled Puducherry government to ensure private medical colleges earmarked 50 per cent of the total seats in MBBS courses for students under government quota.
The raging controversy surrounding admissions of over 456 students undergoing Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) course in 11 private colleges has sent the Punjab government as well as the college managements into a real tizzy.
Defying orders of the Admission Supervisory Committee, headed by Justice James, the Kerala Private Medical College Managements’ Association (KPMCMA) has made it clear that it will not conduct an entrance examination on June 22.
In a desperate bid to fill up seats in private engineering colleges, the state government has decided to slash the admission fee, payable at a time by Rs 20,000.
Education minister BhupendrasinhChudasma has retained the Gujarat University papers granting permission to three private institutes for commencing five-year integrated professional courses to be run from the university campus.