Affordability is the key to expanding international HE
That is the view of Ashwin Assomull, a partner with Parthenon Group’s international education practice, who has worked with government ministers and foundations in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and India. Read more...
Higher cost no guarantee of higher education quality
Sir Michael Barber, co-author of the far-reaching report An Avalanche is Coming: Higher education and the revolution ahead, was speaking at the opening of a conference on “The International Higher Education Revolution: Impacts on mobility, qualifications, networks”, staged in London by The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education, or OBHE, from 11-12 December. Read more...
Productivity Commission calls for overhaul of education
Concern over abolishing the student numbers cap
The institute said last week that although the abolition would extend opportunities for more people to benefit from higher education, it was concerned about “cost implications that cannot be sustained in anything other than the short-term; and so any benefits may be short-lived”. Read more...
Employers to monitor efficiency in universities
New international publishing platform
Efficiency key to HE funding in Europe today – Report
World-Herald Editorial: College costs pose a challenge
New numbers about college costs and student debt provide a sobering reminder of the importance of planning for college and informing students about the realities of those costs. The numbers also provide a caution for college leaders to redouble efforts to hold down costs. The average student debt of a graduating college senior in 2008 was $23,450, the Institute for College Access & Success says in a new report that looks at public and private nonprofit four-year institutions. By 2012 the average debt load for new grads had climbed to $29,400. More...
How A For-Profit College Created Fake Jobs To Get Taxpayer Money
By Chris Kirkham. Eric Parms enrolled at an Everest College campus in the suburbs of Atlanta in large part because recruiters promised he would have little trouble securing a job.
He'd seen the for-profit school's television commercials touting its sterling rates of job placement, and he'd heard the pledges of admissions staff who assured him that the campus career services office would help him find work in his field.
But after completing a nine-month program in heating and air conditioning repair in the summer of 2011 -- graduating with straight As and $17,000 in student debt -- Parms began to doubt the veracity of the pitch. Career services set him up with a temporary contract position laying electrical wires. After less than two months, he and several other Everest graduates also working on the job were laid off and denied further help finding work, he says. More...