Private universities in Ghana have appealed to government to restore the tax exempt status due them to enable them fully discharge their responsibilities to the people.
Founded in 1995, Corinthian is one of the world's largest for-profit college companies, with an enrollment of about 81,000 students at 111 schools in 25 states and Canada. Operating under the names Everest, Heald and WyoTech, it offers job-training programs as well as associate's, bachelor's and master's degrees.
From my story today: “As the Education Department gathers a panel to rewrite controversial for-profit college regulations, the motto might as well be 'the more things change, the more they stay the same.'
For-profit colleges enjoy the fruits of a business model to die for. It's not a new model. In fact, it's very similar to the one employed by subprime mortgage purveyors Washington Mutual and Countrywide Financial that helped put the entire global financial system at risk, pitching the U.S. into the worst financial panic since the Depression. As we confront a national student loan debt now over $1 trillion and counting, that holds back their "normal" investment in first-time housing, cars and the like, it would be wise to look closely at those similarities and see what we can do about them before its too late (again).
Some students in the Inland Empire have complained in recent years that the education and degrees they receive from some area for-profit colleges leave them unemployable in their fields of interest and facing mounds of student loan debt.
A little more than a week after the state of New York sued Donald Trump for $40 million, claiming his Trump University doesn't give students much benefit, the feds are taking a harder look at all for-profit career education institutions.
For-profit colleges will join talks today in Washington as they try to soften an Education Department proposal that sets limits on student debt levels.
The Bay Area's for-profit colleges soak up millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded student grants and loans and charge students high tuition, yet many have low graduation rates or high rates of student loan defaults, an analysis of U.S. Department of Education data reveals.
With students enjoying their first weeks on campus and President Obama's call to bring more accountability to colleges still reverberating, for-profit schools are gearing up for what could be another round of battles over government efforts to tighten regulation of their operations.
For-profit colleges will join talks today in Washington as they try to soften an Education Department proposal that sets limits on student debt levels.
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin called for an examination of for-profit medical schools in the Caribbean that have access to federal student loans yet may be subject to standards below those set for medical students in the U.S.
Real-estate mogul and reality TV star Donald Trump is no stranger to the spotlight — but he can’t be reveling in the attention he’s receiving now. On August 24, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sued the Trump Entrepreneur Initiative, a for-profit school run by Trump, claiming that it tricked students into paying thousands of dollars for courses that failed to provide promised instruction on real-estate business techniques. If these allegations are true, it’s a warning that at least some of what purports to be nontraditional for-profit education can be an old-fashioned rip-off.
The regulation of for-profit higher education is a hot topic once again, thanks in part to a second round of negotiations over gainful employment rules, which begin today,
La iniciativa de Reforma Hacendaria presentada por el Ejecutivo Federal, incrementará el precio en las colegiaturas y repercutirá en la economía de los estudiantes que no encontraron un espacio en las instituciones de nivel medio superior y superior.
La propuesta de aplicar el Impuesto al Valor Agregado (IVA) podría provocar que miles de jóvenes abandonaran sus estudios, advirtió el ex presidente de la Asociación de Instituciones de Educación Superior Privada del Estado de Morelos (AIESPEM), Mario Cabrera Escobar, quien refirió que en la entidad, alrededor del 90 por ciento de la matrícula de escuelas particulares está becada.
El nuevo curso académico está a punto de arrancar. Y lo hace con importantes novedades en la educación superior. La provincia se ha convertido en el objetivo en el que han puesto el ojo diferentes instituciones universitarias privadas en expansión. Una oferta que vendría a completar el abanico de grados, posgrados y másters que ya imparte la Universidad de Málaga (UMA), institución pública que cuenta con más de medio centenar de titulaciones propias y con más de 4.000 egresados cada curso.
Para el diputado del PAN, Juventino López Ayala, es injusto que se grave el IVA a las colegiaturas de las escuelas privadas como se pretende en la Reforma Hacendaria recibida en el Congreso de la Unión.
El ministro de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, José Ignacio Wert, ha asegurado durante la sesión de control al Gobierno en el Congreso, que su política haya mermado el número de estudiantes universitarios el curso pasado y ha afirmado que esta "ligera" reducción se ha dado en la privada y no en la pública.
Ante el reinicio del debate en la Comisión de Educación del Congreso sobre la controvertida nueva Ley Universitaria, el rector de la Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego (UPAO) de Trujillo, Víctor Lozano Ibáñez, propuso a ese grupo de trabajo convocar a las casas superiores de estudio y a la comunidad en su conjunto a fin de elaborar una norma consensuada y no impuesta.
Alrededor de 140,000 estudiantes universitarios de escuelas privadas en la entidad se verían afectados con la aplicación del IVA a colegiaturas, tal como lo propone la iniciativa de reforma hacendaria que presentó el gobierno federal el pasado 8 de septiembre.
El rector de la Universidad Internacional de Andalucía (UNIA), Juan Manuel Suárez Japón, abogón ayer, en la inauguración de los cursos de verano de la sede de la Cartuja de Sevilla, por el derecho a la educación "sin caridad o filantropías privadas". Suárez Japón calificó de "preocupantes" las nuevas reformas universitarias, que dejarán "una universidad pública más pobre, menos dotada para investigar y generar conocimientos, y, por lo tanto, menos capaz de ser útil a la sociedad que la financia".
La Comisión de Educación y Salud de la Cámara de Diputados normará los cobros excesivos que realizan las universidades privadas, en el área de salud, para la habilitación de examen de grado a estudiantes de esas casas de estudio y exigirá al Ministerio de Salud las explicaciones sobre estas irregularidades.
Kerala Nursing and Midwives Council’s decision to bar allotments to 400 nursing seats spread across 8 University Colleges of Nursing under the M.G. University for this year has left around 2,500 applicants in the lurch.
The education ministry is actively considering a suggestion of a parliamentary watchdog to make MPs the heads of the public schools and colleges as they are now chairing the governing bodies of non-government secondary schools and colleges in their constituencies.
The Gujarat industries department signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with private enterprises today to set up five centres of excellence in three universities and two industrial training institutes (ITIs) in the state, a statement issued by the Gujarat state government said.
In an effort to boost enrollment, Sierra Nevada College offered a 50 percent tuition discount to incoming freshmen and transfer students for the current fall semester.
Private college managements which attract a number of intermediate students in the state seem baffled by the drop. "In some branches in Hyderabad, the fall in MPC students is at least 5% when compared to last year. This is definitely beginning of a new trend. And, medical education is being favoured by more number of students than earlier," said principal of a private college in Narayanguda. "This trend can be considered as a starting point of a focus shift from engineering to other professional education," he said.
Private educational institutes decided to close schools and colleges for five days from Friday in support of Samaikyandhra. Convener of private institutes JAC Chatla Narasimha Rao announced this here on Thursday.
Sunil Dabhade, placement officer in a private college, said that last year 400 companies had approached them for placements till September; however, not more than 250 companies have conducted placement drives so far this year.
Last week the U.S. Census reported college enrollment declined for the first time in six years in the fall of 2012. That, in turn, threatens higher education revenue, said Moody's Investors Service in a special report on Monday.
Reacting to the Supreme Court's recent order that termed private technical and medical colleges' demand for capitation fees from students illegal and unethical, Union minister of human resource development MM Pallam Raju on Friday said there are certain loopholes in the system due to which the menace of capitation fees stays alive. "Centre is making all efforts to address the problem. Unfortunately, the Prohibition of Unfair Practices in Technical Educational Institutions, Medical Educational Institution and Universities Bill 2010 is pending in the Parliament," said Raju on the sidelines of a function organised by Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (BBAU).
The Admission Supervisory Committee for Professional Colleges has directed the Kerala Private Medical College Management Association (KPMCMA) to cancel all admissions given from outside the qualified rank list of 408 candidates from the entrance examination that was held earlier this year.
In a bid to keep a track of teachers working in private colleges, Barkatullah University on Saturday decided to issue bio-metric cards from the next academic session.
As many as 62 government and private colleges offering diploma in teachers' education (DTEd) have applied for closure due to low demand for the course.
THE Young Doctors Association (YDA), Pakistan, has pointed out that private medical colleges are giving ads in newspapers for admissions prior to completion of process of admissions in government medical/dental institutions in violation of regulations of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC).
In the General Science results the top three positions went to private colleges: the first position was secured by Mehak Fatima of the NCR-CET College of Emerging Technologies with 85.18 percent; the second position was shared by Nimra Amin of the NCR-CET College of Emerging Technologies and Musfirah Abdullah of the DA Degree College for Women with 84.9 percent; and the third position went to Ayesha Nawab of the DA Degree College for Women with 83.72 percent.
Tuition increases are constantly in the news these days. Private colleges have become incredibly expensive (as I know personally, with a daughter currently attending one). Public colleges also have been raising tuition sharply in many cases, mostly to offset cuts in the funds they receive from state budgets. Yet, by the standards of the economic marketplace most colleges are still underpriced.
That’s the average price of tuition, room and board at Minnesota’s private colleges and universities this year, according to the Minnesota Private College Council.
Seats vacant after the second round of admission in the state's private medical and dental colleges will be filled individually by the institutes for the second year in running. The Bombay high court has given an interim order staying the implementation of a government resolution (GR) of July 4 that directed private colleges to surrender vacant seats after the second round to the state. The round will be over this week.
For students of a number of private medical colleges, dissecting a cadaver — considered an essential part of training in anatomy — is something they rarely get to do.
Private technical and medical colleges demanding capitation fee from students is illegal and unethical, the Supreme Court has said and asked the Centre to make laws to put an end to such practices which deny admission to meritorious financially poor students in those institutions.
Kaplan has become the latest international educator to open operations in Iraqi Kurdistan. Starting next month, it will offer university language preparation programmes through a partnership with Koya University in the capital Erbil to 100 students.
The push is part of a broad new strategy that also seeks to enhance diversity among the ranks of postdoctoral students, faculty, and senior administrators.
At a time when you might have expected to hear the youth of Brazil chanting about the nation’s football team, they called out “Vem pra rua” – “Come to the street” – an invitation to protest against corruption, police aggression and poor public services.
University students in Sri Lanka have commenced an agitation campaign against the government's move to introduce a bill to legalize private universities.
The Entrepreneurship Training Institute (ETI) has held its fourth Congregation ceremony in Accra with a call on private universities to invest more in the development of the competence of their staff to ensure quality education.
Nigerian university students have united under the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) and have protested in the streets of Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State’s capital, demanding that the federal government yield to the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
Out of the 60 Private Universities in Ghana, only one of them has the Presidential Charter to award its own degrees and certificates, Professor Kwesi Yankah, President of Central University College, has disclosed.
Agiliance®, Inc., the leading independent provider of Integrated Risk Management solutions for Governance and Security programs, today announced that one of the nation’s top private universities has deployed Agiliance RiskVision™ to manage its governance and security risk processes. The university is using Agiliance’s software platform to manage all risk artifacts in a centralized and automated fashion, which allows the institution’s compliance and risk services team to take a pro-active rather than reactive approach to security management.
The U.S. still dominates QS’ leaderboard with 11 institutions cracking the top 20. However, all 11 are private universities. The highest-ranked public school is the University of Michigan at No. 22. Researchers point to budget cuts.
The list, which catalogs the top 800 universities worldwide, is compiled by London consulting firm Quacquarelli Symonds. According to Andina news agency, La Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru (PUCP), a private university in the San Miguel district, leads the Peruvian trio.
Some years ago, there was a survey conducted by a couple of national nonprofit leadership organizations to ascertain the “core values of the nonprofit sector.” How do the ever-rising salaries of private university presidents—while faculty salaries stagnate and tuition costs to students skyrocket—reflect the core values of the nonprofit sector? Jaeah Lee and Maggie Severns writing for Mother Jones note that a number of private universities—and, to be fair, public universities as well—are providing pay and perks to university presidents that are kind of mind-boggling.
Asia’s premier monthly magazine on ICT in Education-Digital Learning has ranked Lovely Professional University as top private university in overall ranking with 441.74 scores.
The Madonna University Alumni Association has urged the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) to soft-pedal on its threat to massively clamp down on private universities in the country as a result of the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union, (ASUU).
Hawai‘i Pacific University climbed 10 places in the top Regional Universities in the West in U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges 2014,” released today. That comes on the heels of a six-place jump in last year’s ranking, school officials noted.
Two universities and a college professor were chosen this year to share in the 2013 Academic Affairs Awards presented by The Washington Center. Lubbock Christian University is among those honored and will be presented with the Private University of the Year Award during The Washington Center's annual awards luncheon in Washington, D.C. at the National Press Club on Oct. 7, 2013.
Already, "precipitous enrollment declines for fall 2013" have hurt the credit quality of two private colleges—Loyola University in Louisiana and Central College in Iowa—and a public one, St. Mary's College in Maryland.
Enrollment at four-year public and private universities in Northeast Ohio is holding steady despite declines in the number of high school graduates in the Midwest and concerns over rising tuition costs and student debt.
Add one more strain to the finances of US universities: a decline in enrolment. Last week the US Census reported that college enrolment declined for the first time in six years in the autumn of 2012. That, in turn, threatens higher education revenue, said Moody's Investors Service, reports Reuters.
Monash South Africa and Laureate Education have unveiled a partnership agreement that will enable the local higher education provider operated by Australia’s Monash University to expand its student enrolment and academic offerings.
Despite growing by leaps and bounds in the past 10 years and expanding higher education access to thousands of needy learners, private universities in Kenya continue to shun science, technology, engineering and mathematics – STEM – courses, leaving the heavy financial and infrastructural burdens of these subjects to poorly funded public institutions.
Maharashtra Government is mulling setting up of a special recruitment board on lines of MPSC and UPSC for the appointment of lecturers and staff to private colleges, minister for Higher and Technical Education Rajesh Tope has said.
A spate of small private liberal arts colleges are dramatically slashing their sticker prices in an effort to, they say, tell the truth about the real cost of college, help families and attract new students.
A report commissioned by the Australian Council for Private Education and Training showed that private higher education providers could lose $50 million in revenue if they swapped full-fee places for commonwealth-supported places.
Our next presentation are from the folks at Apollo Group, APOL is the ticker. We have got two representatives from the company here; up here I have got Greg Cappelli who is the CEO of Apollo Group. In the audience, we've got Brian Swartz, who is the CFO, Senior Vice President, and we've got other members of the team as well.
By every available indication, Corinthian Colleges Inc., one of the country's largest chains of for-profit colleges, stands out as an institution whose students face especially long odds of success.
Colleges and universities should be accountable to the public for public money they receive. Obama is especially annoyed with expensive for-profit colleges that receive federal student aid dollars but whose students incur large debts and then drop out, or who graduate but cannot find good paying jobs. Who can blame him?
Apart from law and order, education and health are perhaps the two areas where a government has the greatest responsibility towards its citizens - in socialist as well as capitalist societies. Unfortunately, in India, we have seen the steady retreat of government as a provider of quality education and healthcare. It is clear that there is no option but for the private sector to step in to bridge the yawning gap in the number of schools, colleges and hospitals.
Last month, USA Today reported that House Education Committee Chairman Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., who has received generous campaign contributions from for-profit colleges, is pushing legislation that would protect the industry from losing federal aid, which accounts for much of their revenue.
A new tool released this week by Wellesley College promises to be a game-changer in the higher education marketplace by bringing clarity to the college-shopping process. It also has the potential to attract more people to college.
In an April Globe Magazine story, education writer Jon Marcus sounded an alarm for this area’s small private colleges: Endowments were suffering, admissions were down, and plenty of families were beginning to wonder what their hefty tuition payments got them. “There’s little doubt in my mind,” said one consultant, “that a number of small tuition-dependent private colleges will go out of business in the next 10 years.”
Eighty students from Kashmiri families, who took admission in a Fatehgarh Sahib-based engineering college under the Prime Minister's Special Scholarship Scheme, have alleged that the college duped them and left them in a situation where they cannot even seek admission in another college.
Back in the old says, it is very common for lecturers in public colleges to opt out to teach in the private sector. But nowadays, the situation seemed to have reversed.
Statistics available with this scribe shows that parents and students’ distrust at public sector alma maters and low seating capacity of these colleges providing huge and profitable business to private sector colleges who are charging high fees.
The Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER) issued a notification on Tuesday, detailing the process for filling up vacant seats in six private unaided medical and dental colleges, including three in Pune, starting from September 23.
Private universities in state will invite trouble for themselves for affiliating colleges. In the wake of escalating number of complaints regarding affiliation/ franchise centres being distributed freely, University Grants Commission has yet again warned private universities not to flout the norms or face the music as per the private universities regulation, 2003. The commission, citing regulations, has said that private universities being unitary in nature cannot affiliate any college or institute for conducting courses leading to award of its diplomas, degree or other qualifications.
Adrian College, a small, private school in Michigan, says it will make all or part of a student's loan payment until the individual makes more than $37,000 a year.
Teaching faculty of private colleges, including engineering institutions drew flak from educationists for staying focused on infrastructure and rather than good teaching staff. As a result, even talented students from private institutions suffer on account of poor placements.
Harvard men’s basketball has seen a rise in its on the court success. The past two seasons, the Crimson has qualified for the NCAA tournament, and in March upset No. 3 seed New Mexico in the second round. Harvard is the favorite to win the Ivy League again, returning multiple starters in addition to Kyle Casey and Brandyn Curry rejoining the team.
Freshman enrollment was a mixed bag this fall at private colleges and universities in West Michigan, with some schools, such as Calvin College, seeing a jump in students while others were down slightly.
In recent weeks, President Obama has weighed in on the important subject of higher education. Much of the conversation has focused on the cost of a college education and the very real challenges of student debt looming over more and more young Americans. As this conversation continues, we must also seriously discuss expectations related to student learning and the value of a college education.
St. Bonaventure University (Olean, NY), the nation’s first Franciscan university, has become the 21st New York independent college and 76th Catholic college to join the SAGE Scholars Private College & University Enrollment Consortium.
Medical and dental college aspirants are worried about losing out on seats despite being meritorious. A schedule for admissions to private medical and dental colleges to fill seats that are vacant after the second round gives students only one day to attend counselling, confirm seats and pay tuition fees.
Today, Peirce College, Philadelphia’s leading private, non-profit, four-year accredited institution for working adult learners, announced their Paralegal Studies degree program has received full reapproval from the American Bar Association. With this news, Peirce College remains the only institution to offer an ABA-approved Paralegal Studies bachelor's degree program in Philadelphia.
Another person elected was an 'agent' who supplies 'patients and faculty' to private medical colleges whenever an MCI team comes for inspections. The election in the state was nothing less than a 'cash-for-vote' scam and the future of medical education depends on this elected body."
Teaching in private colleges throughout the country was affected on Friday as thousands of teachers were on mass casual leave and participated in a rally held at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi.