Private University Education Research Articles

The Growth of Private University Education in Kenya: The Promise and Challenge

The first step toward the introduction and development of university education in Kenya was taken in 1961, when the then Royal College, Nairobi, was elevated to university college status under a special arrangement with the University of London. However, it was not until 1970 that the University College of Nairobi attained university status. Although comparatively young, state universities in Kenya have accomplished a lot. They accomplished their initial mission of producing adequate human resources for the civil service, national corporations, and the private sector; graduated thousands of students; and helped foster an intellectual community in the country. In just 30 years, public higher education has expanded from a single university (the University of Nairobi) to the current 6 public universities: Nairobi, Moi, Kenyatta, Egerton, Jomo Kenyatta, and Maseno. In spite of this growth, public universities in Kenya have faced enrollments beyond their capacity to plan and finance, fiscal challenges beyond their control, a decline in quality beyond their anticipation, and weak management practices beyond their level of training. To help solve some of these problems, private universities have increasingly emerged and gained ground in the country as an alternative route to higher education provision. This article seeks to examine some of the trends, prospects, and challenges to the emergence and development of private university education in Kenya.

Standards for Library Education in Private Universities in Jordan

Standards are necessary to ensure that quality programs in Library and Information Science are delivered. The paper outlines the development of library education programs in Jordan. It places particular emphasis on the development, beginning in 1998, of the programs in private universities and describes the design of library standards for those programs at the undergraduate level. A historical look at Jordan, the higher education system, emergence and development of private universities are reviewed and standards are prescribed. The standards include rationales, objectives, curricula, study plans, basic and supplementary courses required, major subject areas of study, faculty qualifications, student admission, physical resources and facilities, and administration and financial support.

Teacher Education in Private Colleges and Universities: Uniformity and Diversity

Teacher Education in Private Colleges and Universities: Uniformity and Diversity

Teacher Education in Private Colleges and Universities: Past and Present *

Teacher Education in Private Colleges and Universities: Past and Present *

The crisis in private university education: A stimulation experiment

This investigation presents a narrative and quantitative description of the private university crisis. It proposes a theoretical explanation in the form of a dynamic, mathematical model of a hypothetical system at the organization level—a private university operating in a hypothetical environment (i.e., one with a ten percent inflation rate). The demographic submodels simulate the application and acceptance rates of both students and faculty (disaggregated into high- and low-performance types) and interfaces these with a set of financial submodels simulating university budgeting practices. After consideration of the general static, dynamic, and causal structure of the model, four policy simulations are described. In the context of the structural and environmental assumptions embodied in the model, of the four tests, only an externally subsidized tuition equalization program averts collapse of the private university.