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Private Higher Education: Global Trends and Indian Perspectives is now published by Shipra. The book’s editors are PROPHEts Asha Gupta, Daniel Levy, and K.P. Powar.
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Fatma MIZIKACI from Turkey is a new PROPHE affiliate.Click here to see her profile . |
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Joanna Demurat has been admitted to the U Albany PhD program where she plans to continue her work on Polish private higher education and on semi-elite universities. |
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Chinese
scholar, Youxiang Ke from School of Education in Huazhong University of Science & Technology, is in residence for Dec 2007-Dec 2008.
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The
new working paper "Access through Private Higher Education: Global Patterns and Indian Illustrations”, by Daniel C Levy is posted on Publications sub-site. click "here." |
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PROPHE
Director Daniel C. Levy participated in a conference of the International Finance Corporation, May 14-16, with providers and government officials from around the world. The photo depicts his lecture at a panel on For-Profit vs. Non-Profit: Does it Matter? along with directors of the University of Phoenix and (ex) of Whitney International.Also See Private Education Growing Rapidly on IFC website. |
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Director Daniel C. Levy will participate in a conference "Alternatives to Traditional Modes of Higher Education" at the American Enterprise Institute in June. |
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PROPHE
ran two panels at the annual Comparative International
& Comparative Education Society, Teacher's College, NYC, March
2008. One focuses on Asia, the other on Latin America, both on the
access and equity roles of "demand-absorbing" private
higher education.For the details,
please click "here." |
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Data on Japan's Single Country Case has been significantly updated from the version 2000 and show transformations within the country's private subsectors.
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PROPHE PhD student, Makoto Nagasawa, presented a talk on Japanese higher education privatization in Santiago , Chile , at its National Accreditation unit. http://www.cnachile.cl/actividades/act_02_2008.html. PROPHE PhD student Prachayani Praphamontripong is doing field research back home for her dissertation on differentiation within Thai private higher education. |
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Activities & Events page has updated. |
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PROPHE
Director Daniel C. Levy presented a talk on Private Higher
Education's Global Surge: Emulating U.S. Patterns? for a conference
on higher education privatization at the Samuel Nieman Institute
for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology, Technion University
in Haifa, Israel, Jan 6-8, 2008. |
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Private
Higher Education in Post-Communist Europe, eds. Slantcheva &
Levy, published by Palgrave, 2007 |
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Volumes
on Africa, India, and global public policy well in progress. |
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See
enhanced International Data table, now with 92 countries. |
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The
Legal Framework for Portuguese Private Higher Education is now
on-line. See "National Laws"
for more detail. |
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Country
data on private higher education in Egypt,Thailand, Georgia, Portugal and Mexico are now posted. See "National
Data" for more detail. |
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Review
of PROPHE Work: Lloyd Armstrong, a professor and Provost
Emeritus at the University of Southern California, has recently
commented on PROPHE work, including PROPHE
working paper #7. See his full complimentary on PROPHE work
at: http://www.changinghighereducation.com/2006/12/index.html. |
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PROPHE
now collaborates with the NCSPE (National Center for the Study of
Privatization in Education), Teachers College, Columbia University.
See "Related Research Centers"
for more information and its publications. |
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