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UCU is delighted to announce that Dr Miguel Angel Beltran, the university professor imprisoned in Colombia since May 2009 was finally released this Tuesday 7th June, having been declared innocent of the spurious charges of ‘rebellion’ and ‘criminal conspiracy for terrorist purposes’. Dr Beltran has endured two years in prison without conviction simply for [...] The University of Phoenix, the for-profit subsidiary of the Apollo Group, is facing new allegations of wrongdoing. The attorney-general of Massachusetts is asking the company for 10 years of documents as part of an investigation into possible “unfair or deceptive practices.” Thanks to everyone who has joined the call for the release of Dr Beltran from his imprisonment in Colombia. The University and College Union, together with Justice for Colombia has today submitted to President Santos a letter signed by more than 4000 academics. Signatories include the Nobel prize winner, Sir Richard Roberts and a host [...] Colombia heard the voice of educators loud and clear last year when 1,000 UK academics wrote to the Colombian president calling for the release of Dr Miguel Beltran. Several unions on the Education Solidarity Network did the same, including the CAUT in Canada and the NTEU in Australia. Since our letter to the president, [...] In a scathing report, the U.S.-based Education Trust is accusing American for-profit colleges of making out like bandits while students are left with crippling levels of debt. The report lists a series of concrete examples of how for-profit higher education is failing: The University of Phoenix – the nation’s largest for-profit postsecondary education provider [...] The cause of for-profit education in the UK took a blow yesterday with the news that BPP University College, the for-profit education company with degree-awarding powers made an operating loss of more than $190 million (£118 million). The losses were largely the result of the US parent company Apollo charging BPP $175million for poorer [...] Campaigners for trade unions and human rights in Colombia are reporting an incredible response to the letter sent from 1000 UK academics in support of Dr Miguel Beltran, the academic being tried for ‘rebellion’ by the Colombian government. The story was picked up by all the main Colombian newspaper websites, Colombia’s main TV channel and [...] UK universities have been rocked in the last month by 40% cuts to public funding, proposals to raise student tuition fees to £9000, to completely marketise the funding base for many subjects and, predictably, to make it easier for US for-profit companies to expand to fill the gaps. Firstly, the Browne review recommended removing the [...] Students paying for-profit colleges and universities may be wondering where their fees are going. Bloomberg News is reporting that the executives at America’s top 15 for-profit colleges collected a whopping $2 billion in compensation last year. Remember, that’s the same year that the industry registered record loan-default and drop-out rates. And, oh yeah — [...] In an overall bleak picture for UK higher education, a small bit of good news this month as it was confirmed that the talks between INTO University partnerships, the private company that trades in language students and which has featured elsewhere on this blog, and Reading University had broken down. Following strong representations from [...] |
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