Blog Headway - Olivier Rollot. Le rapport de la médiatrice de l’éducation nationale et de de l’enseignement supérieur, Monique Sassier, jetait en 2012 un regard cru sur certaines pratiques trop souvent dénoncées d’un enseignement supérieur privé agissant en marge de toute contrôle réel de l’État. Suite...
We private providers open doors to students shunned by other universities
Private universities seek state-funded students share
By Gilbert Nganga. Private universities in Kenya are pushing to be allowed to admit state-funded students, in a bid to help ease an admissions crisis in public institutions. Currently – and despite a government directive – private institutions can only admit self-sponsored students. Read more...
Weighing public and private interests in regulating school choice
By Jon Valant. The steady growth of charter schools and public school choice programs is changing the ways that U.S. public schools are governed. Traditionally, states delegate school governance to school districts, with governing authority held by locally elected boards. More...
EDMC settlements chart new direction for private-sector education
The road to privatisation
By Ly Pham. Alongside the transformation of central planning into a market economy, private higher education institutions have been adopted in Vietnam since 1993 and now account for 19% of the total higher education institutions and 14% of higher education students. Read more...
Universities need balance in accepting corporate money
More Canadian institutions will face controversy over the influence of donors on programmes if they do not rethink their relationship with private funders, warn academics who have studied the relationship between donations and educational institutions, writes Simona Chiose for The Globe and Mail. Read more...
Financement privé des universités : la doyenne d’une école de commerce en Saskatchewan se fait rassurante
Daphne Taras, doyenne de l’école de commerce Edwards à Saskatoon, surveille de près les critiques que s’est attirées l’Université de Calgary après la révélation de son étroite relation avec la pétrolière Enbridge. Voir l'article...
Top state school pupils 'get better degrees than those from private schools'
By Richard Adams. Researchers found state school pupils with A* grade A-levels were likely to get better degrees than those from private schools with similar A-level grades. More...
L’enseignement supérieur privé face au désengagement de l’Etat
Blog Headway - Olivier Rollot. 13% en 2013, 7% en 2014 et encore 1% cette année, même symbolique le désengagement financier de l’Etat vis à vis de l’enseignement supérieur privé se poursuit cette année comme le déplorent la CDEFI, la CGE et les quatre fédérations d’établissements d’enseignement supérieur privés contractualisés (Fesic, Udesca, Ugei et l’UNFL) dans un communiqué commun. Alors que le montant des ressources tirées de la collecte de la taxe d’apprentissage a chuté de 32% cette année et que les chambres de commerce se désengagent c’est tout l’enseignement supérieur privé qui s’inquiète de son avenir. Suite...