But, one interesting development has been the slow rise, after centuries of vacuum, of private universities.
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America's top private universities, on the other hand, did not have to deal with finicky legislators.
In November, after a long tussle, a huge network of private universities fell into the government's clutches.
It has a few institutions that work reasonably well, such as the central bank and the private universities.
Development of the software was supported with funding from several public and private universities and the National Science Foundation.
Second, even taken collectively, private universities do not operate on the same scale.
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Nor are private universities the only ones feeling the chill winds of recession.
We will only have a variety of private universities, some of which will be subsidized a little bit by tax-payers.
But the interest rate on state-guaranteed bank loans to students at newer private universities, introduced in 2006, was fixed at 5.8%.
As for the shortage of staff, private universities will only increase this problem by luring academics away from already understaffed public institutions.
Many of the best private universities combine high tuition fees with an offer of aid to those who cannot pay the bill.
Private universities and colleges with lower credit ratings, as well as smaller public universities, reported the most enrollment pressure, according to Moody's.
Private universities in Europe can be as pricey as their U.S. counterparts.
The apocalypse could speed up, however, if private universities continue to expand.
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Yoido Full Gospel Church's founder Cho Yong-gi, who has run the congregation since 1958, has family interests ranging from private universities to newspapers.
Private universities are no different from professional baseball teams or Internet start-ups: they have used their new wealth to hire the best talent available.
Private universities will create a two-tier university system in which the quality of education is based on family income rather than grades and intelligence.
Donations to private universities fell last year for the first time since the late 1980s, according to the Rand Corporation's Council for Aid to Education.
Naturally, private universities, especially for-profit online universities, will pooh-pooh this development.
More and more students are choosing to attend Poland's burgeoning new private universities, which offer marketable vocational degrees rather than the intellectually laudable but unlucrative theoretical science.
But the most able of the rejected candidates may well be offered places by private universities such as Harvard and Stanford, which are keen on promoting racial diversity.
As you say, Ontario allows private universities but many students there have difficulty paying for public university tuition, which has increased by 60% in the past five years.
In the past decade, Afghanistan has seen the development of a younger professional class, much thanks to the opportunities of higher education offered by newly opened affordable private universities.
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These contributions were made by academics at nine public and private universities, where work in this area has been underway for some years, under the leadership of the Colombian Ministry of Education.
It offers private universities tax breaks in return for giving around a tenth of their places free or at discounts to students on modest incomes, benefiting more than 1m pupils since 2005.
Not at nonprofit private universities.
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Those costs reflect a trend among private American universities--charge a stratospheric tuition fee, then offer a generous financial aid package.
Announcements about the private institutions becoming universities are being made by the institutions concerned.
When a few cases of swine flu appeared in private schools and universities last month, the government closed down the lot.
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