Par Frédéric Duriez. Le modèle économique du gratuit a connu un tel succès avec Internet que celui qui paierait pour regarder des vidéos, écouter de la musique ou se former en ligne paraîtrait bien niais.
Beaucoup des applications sur lesquelles nous passons des heures, et en particulier les réseaux sociaux ne nous coûtent rien... Google, Facebook ou Twitter sont-ils gérés par des idéalistes philanthropes. Voir l'article...
The Coming Cost Debate in Ontario
By . As you will recall, the Government of Ontario is rolling out a plan to provide enough grants to fully offset tuition in most university and college programs for students from families with incomes of less than $50,000. That’s going to happen by 2017-2018. But the really interesting thing they want to is what they call “net billing”. It’s going to roll out sometime in early 2018 for students starting in the 2018-19 year. More...
Does Technology Ever Reduce the Costs of Teaching?
By . The Chronicle spoke with three experts about ways colleges can use technology to reduce instructional costs. More...
More Colleges Turn to ‘Stackable’ Degrees as Entries to Graduate Programs
By . As the costs of graduate education skyrocket and students demand cheaper, more-convenient ways of learning, colleges and universities are increasingly experimenting with so-called "stackable degrees". More...
Candidate’s comment reopens whether college is worth the cost
The Cost of Being Decent to Adjuncts
By Colleen Flaherty. New paper argues that colleges can't afford to improve the pay and working conditions of those off the tenure track. Activists slam the analysis. Read more...
New limits on living cost support for EU students
By Brendan O’Malley. Jo Johnson, the minister for universities and science, has announced that the government is increasing restrictions on European Union nationals accessing student living cost support in England from 2016-17. Read more...
Kosten für die Unis: Teure Medizinstudenten, billige Juristen
Knapp 11.000 Euro geben deutsche Hochschulen pro Student im Jahr aus. Doch es gibt große Unterschiede zwischen den Fachbereichen - wer wie viel kostet, zeigt unsere Grafik. Mehr...
La scolarité d’un étudiant coûte environ 14 000 euros par an à l’État
Par Aude Bariéty. Du simple au triple. La scolarité d’un étudiant coréen coûte en moyenne 30 776 euros à son pays, contre 92 429 euros pour celle d’un étudiant suédois, selon les chiffres de 2012 publiés dans la note d’information de février 2016 de la Direction de l’évaluation, de la prospective et de la performance (DEPP). La scolarité d’un étudiant français, quant à elle, coûte 55 869 euros à l’Etat, ce qui situe l’Hexagone légèrement au dessus de la moyenne des pays de l’OCDE, 52 257 euros. Suite...
Even Kanye West Thinks Textbooks Are Too Expensive
Kanye West, in the midst of a wide-ranging Twitter rant about his new album, The Life of Pablo, being $53 million in debt and his preferred music streaming service, on Wednesday issued a call to lower the cost of textbooks. Read more...