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The Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola (USIL), a leading private university in Peru, will receive a $23.5 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to double its capacity and expand access to affordable education programs for low-income students.
IDB financing will allow USIL to double its capacity from approximately 12,000 to 25,000 students over the next ten years.
Moreover, the loan will help USIL establish a new student guarantee fund, support a new technical training institute, and increase its participation in Beca 18, a Peruvian government flagship scholarship program targeting economically disadvantaged youth.
It will also help expand and upgrade USIL’s infrastructure using green technology that permits the reduction of water and energy consumption.
The project, which is also being financed by Banco de Crédito del Peru and the Canadian Climate Change Fund, comes as years of sustained economic growth in Peru has fueled growth of an emerging middle class eager to improve its living standards through high-quality college education. Currently only three out of ten Peruvian high school students have access to higher education. Read more..

Universities are “dying a slow and painful” death in the face of utilitarian policies of the State and aggressive commercialisation of higher education, eminent educationists said today.
Highlighting the challenges faced by universities today, a group of educationists revisited fundamental questions regarding the concept of universities, at a seminar organised by the Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) here.
Assessing the crisis in academic leadership, former Vice-Chancellor of Lucknow University Roop Rekha Verma said excessive regimentation taking place in universities was threatening the concept of them being the nerve-centre of creativity and leadership. Read more...

By Bongekile Macupe. Universities are owed millions of rand by students, with some of the debt dating back to the early 1980s. Even though some institutions feel the pinch more than others, the debt mountain takes a heavy toll because tuition fees form a significant part of the income of universities. For those students who don’t pay up, their diplomas or degrees are withheld until their debt is settled, often putting them in a Catch-22 bind. Jabulani Mathebula finished his public management diploma at the University of Johannesburg last year and is due to graduate in April. But he owes the university R6 000 and if he doesn’t raise the money before April he won’t get his diploma. Read more...