Los rectores de las universidades públicas valencianas apuestan por incluir a las privadas que operan en la Comunitat en el futuro mapa de titulaciones, una medida a pactar con el Consell que busca evitar duplicidades entre grados y másteres con el objetivo de racionalizar la oferta y el gasto en la educación superior. Así lo explicaron ayer antes de participar en una mesa redonda sobre el futuro del modelo universitario español organizada por la Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País.
Ten years after private engineering colleges made their way in the state in 2002, the cash-strapped state is all set to throw open its doors to self-financing degree colleges and universities as in other parts of the country. The proposal will be placed in the Cabinet for the final nod.
Pitching for the private sector to play a bigger role in higher education, President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said the private sector needed to step up its efforts to convince the people that it offered the best quality of education compared to the highest international standards.
The private vs. government debate is not a new one in education, but is less applicable to the university landscape. But it has gained momentum in Karnataka now in the backdrop of as many as 13 new private universities getting the green signal from the government to establish themselves in the State. So far, there were only two in Karnataka.
Private medical college business has become the easiest way to make money. These institutions running without required faculty or training facilities are recovering millions of rupees from parents in the name of medical education but producing half-backed doctors, not educated or trained as per the needs of market, said senior healthcare expert and ex-member of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council Dr Shershah Syed here Thursday.
Wealthy donors to Ivy League universities can "buy a place" for their offspring, and admissions policies at elite U.S. universities are far less meritocratic than anything that would be accepted in Britain, the universities and science minister has argued.
Private universities and colleges are against a proposal by the Higher Education Ministry to collect bonds from them, with a view to providing students with a safety net.
Last year, leading lights in for-profit and nonprofit higher education convened in Washington for a conference on private-sector innovation in the industry. The national conversation about dysfunction and disruption in higher education was just heating up, and panelists from start-ups, banking, government, and education waxed enthusiastic about the ways that a traditional college education could be torn down and rebuilt—and about how lots of money could be made along the way.
La Asociación de Universidades Privadas expresó ayer su objeción al presidente Evo Morales de destinar el 1 por ciento del total de los ingresos de esas entidades a favor de la Agencia de Acreditación del Estado, por lo que solicitaron al Gobierno dialogar sobre el tema, pues consideran que una entidad estatal como ésta debe sustentarse de los aranceles de servicios que prestará.
The Supreme Court, while deciding to examine the validity of the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET), has permitted private medical colleges to conduct their own entrance tests for admission to MBBS/postgraduate/dental courses but they should not declare the results until its further orders.
In a previous op-ed (India fails test of 'knowledge economy', Asia Times Online, November 30, 2012), I drew attention to what can be called a "research deficit" in India's higher education. In it, I mentioned a study by Thomson Reuters according to which India produced only 3.5% of the global research output in 2010 and its contribution in most disciplines - including mathematics and computer science - was lower than its overall average.
For the second straight year, the chief executives of 36 private U.S. colleges or universities earned more than $1 million in 2010, according to an annual study by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Private-college presidents often draw scrutiny for their hefty compensation packages, but most of them have a ready comeback: I could make a lot more money in the corporate world.
Manipal Global Education Services, the Rs 1,200 crore higher education major, is looking to spin off its overseas arm into a separate entity. The overseas arms with operations in Malaysia, Nepal, Antigua and Dubai contribute as much as 55 per cent to the revenues and this will be the precursor to raising $100 million through the private equity route in the overseas arm.
Cuando al menos cinco universidades privadas están en la mira de la fiscalía por lucro y posibles acreditaciones falsas, y el cierre de la Universidad del Mar dejará 18.000 alumnos con títulos sin valor alguno, parece evidente que los privados ya no le garantizan al país transparencia ni calidad en educación.
Between the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 school years, published tuition and fees at private, nonprofit colleges rose by 3.9%. While students may initially think this is bad news, the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) reports that it was the lowest rate of increase in at least four decades.
Punjab assembly passed two controversial bills on Friday, paving the way for two private universities to come up in the state even as the treasury benches ridiculed private varsities terming them as teaching shops set up to mint money.