Grand Canyon University was bustling with activity on the second day of classes last week, with an on-campus student population now approaching 8,500, new dormitories and an athletic program ready to launch its first year in NCAA Division I as a member of the Western Athletic Conference.
For-profit schools — which include the University of Phoenix, DeVry University and Strayer University — began booming in the 1990s after changes in state and federal regulations made it possible for them to open campuses across the country and online.
Students of tertiary institutions under the aegis of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) yesterday staged a protest in Ado- Ekiti against the prolonged strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
A drop in tuition at nearby private universities has led to increasing enrollment patterns, whereas state-owned universities are hiking tuition prices while experiencing smaller enrollments.
A day after Nagpur University cleared the alleged 'illegal' proposal of partial 'carry on', academicians associated with it slammed the administration led by vice-chancellor Vilas Sapkal for bowing down to private engineering colleges and diluting academic standards of university. They said never in history of any university such a rule was made where students were granted admissions but not allowed to appear in exams. Some plan to move to the judiciary against this decision.