"Con fines de lucro" es el nuevo libro de la periodista María Olivia Monckeberg que busca revelar "la escandalosa historia de las universidades privadas en Chile" en el que se revelan nuevos casos de irregularidades en las finanzas entre las instituciones de educación superior.
Salary increases for tenured and tenure-track faculty in 2012 matched the rate of inflation in 2012, but those working at private institutions fared better than the inflation rate compared to their colleagues at public schools whose pay increases failed to keep pace.
On Friday, prosecutors in Miami charged the politically-connected CEO of for-profit Dade Medical College, Ernesto Perez, with the felony charge of providing false information through a sworn statement, plus two misdemeanor counts of perjury.
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 Bangalore University Task Force has recommended the varsity not to approve admissions made by private colleges that do not have the university affiliation.
Maharashtra's first private/self-financed university will start operations from 2014-15 academic session in all likelihood after the government cleared decks for allowing entry of such institutions. It has so far received five proposals which would be treated as separate bills and tabled in the forthcoming assembly session to be held in Nagpur in December. Earlier in April, the state cabinet gave a green signal to model guidelines for opening such universities, thus opening the doors to industries, trusts and societies, to establish a private university on no-profit/loss basis.
There are many things that make Habib University a unique and interesting project, the least of which involves financing of the university and architectural aspects of its campus. In what constitutes "one of the largest" investments in a private university in Pakistan, most of the funding for this university currently comes from House of Habib. But Rizvi says that a good private university needs to be owned by the society, which is why the management plans to raise money from a variety of sources in the private sector.
Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh on Monday said the government will not issue licences to new private universities in the state, saying they are "not needed in a small state".
The 'Forum for Fairness in Education' has decided to file a contempt case against the state government for violating the apex court's order on private medical and dental college seats. The SC directive states that private medical and dental colleges have to surrender vacant seats to the government after the second round of admission. The government can allot these seats to meritorious candidates.
All Kerala Private College Teachers’ Association (AKPCTA) has called upon the Higher Education Council not to make recommendation for the introduction of autonomous colleges in the State.
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.
Founded in 2005, the Crescent University, Abeokuta, Ogun State, has come a long way. The Registrar, Ademola Ajibola, a lawyer, in this interview with Editor, Education, TAYO LEWIS insists that rather than encouraging a depreciation of standards, private varsities are raising a standard which is putting parents’ minds at rest.
The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) and the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) have yet to start joint site inspections of private medical colleges. The NAB blames the medical council for the delay.
At the University of Evansville, a private institution in Indiana, tuition for students who enter next fall will be the same ($29,740) as it is now. And the price will be locked in for the four years those students are in school; the price also will be locked in for current students as they finish their bachelor’s degrees.
Representantes de las universidades privadas que imparten carreras relacionadas con las ciencias de la salud, piden a la Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS) romper el “monopolio” que deja la formación de médicos especialistas únicamente en manos de la Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR).
Existe un acuerdo entre el Gobierno, las universidades privadas e indígenas para cambiar el currículo universitario e introducir la descolonización como una nueva asignatura en la malla curricular. Además, hay un convenio para consolidar la ejecución de políticas públicas a través de investigaciones que sustenten estudios especializados en racismo, discriminación y despatriarcalización.
El rector de la Universidad de Alicante, Manuel Palomar (Ontinyent, 1964), además de ser el presidente de turno de la Conferencia de Rectores de las Universidades Valencianas, acaba de asumir la presidencia de Xarxa Vives, que aglutina a 21 universidades del ámbito lingüístico catalán. Palomar denuncia la proliferación de nuevas universidades privadas, como la Católica de Sant Joan d’Alacant y la Mare Nostrum en El Campello, sin “avales científicos y académicos”. El catedrático de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos considera que la subida de tasas académicas en el sistema público genera “desigualdad”.
El Rector de la Universidad de Chile planteó sus reparos a la propuesta del ministerio de Salud de suprimir el Examen Único Nacional de Conocimientos de Medicina (Eunacom), "es inaceptable en momentos en que los Tribunales de Justicia están investigando delitos vinculados a acreditaciones de universidades privadas”, sostuvo.
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