By . ONCE upon a time in America, baby boomers paid for college with the money they made from their summer jobs. Then, over the course of the next few decades, public funding for higher education was slashed. These radical cuts forced universities to raise tuition year after year, which in turn forced the millennial generation to take on crushing educational debt loads, and everyone lived unhappily ever after. More...
By Wendy Robinson. When I decided to begin the program, I had to make a decision about how to pay for it. I was offered a very small scholarship ($800, which basically covered books for my first few semesters) and applied for financial aid. Although I had money in savings, I opted to use student loans instead. Read more...
Harper College, in Illinois, on Sunday unveiled a program to provide two years of free tuition to high school graduates in its district. The program has some requirements: students may miss only limited numbers of days in high school, must graduate on time and must perform community service. Read more...
By James L. Doti. The announcement of Sweet Briar College’s closing has sent shock waves throughout independent higher education, with some viewing this as the tip of the iceberg and expecting more closings to follow. Those concerns are well founded. An analysis of Sweet Briar’s fiscal travails and those of other colleges in similar straits suggests that Sweet Briar’s announced closing should have come as no surprise and that its situation is not an anomaly. More...
By . Labor’s Hecs scheme is the template upon which Christopher Pyne’s current university funding policy rests. Both parties are missing the mark. More...
By Agnete Vabø and Jannecke Wiers-Jenssen. All Nordic countries offer free higher education to their citizens. Traditionally, international students have also been able to study for free in this region but in 2006 Denmark introduced tuition fees for international students coming from outside the European Union and the European Economic Area. Read more...
By Anthony Davis and Michael Whalen. Cape Breton University President David Wheeler and his faculty and student union colleagues have floated an essentially self-serving proposal with their Tuition Free campaign.
Their presumption seems to be that free post-secondary education is some kind of human right and that massive, albeit undefined, benefits will flow if the government eliminates tuition. More...
By Andy Thomason. Higher education’s focus on sustainability seriously undermines free inquiry and debate on college campuses, a new report from the National Association of Scholars argues. The report, entitled “Sustainability: Higher Education’s New Fundamentalism,” also argues that colleges’ sustainability efforts are too costly at a time when graduates are struggling to pay off loan debtThe New York State attorney general’s office is investigating the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art’s controversial decision to charge undergraduate tuition for the first time in its history, The Wall Street Journal reports. The prestigious New York City institution’s decision to begin charging tuition, first for graduate students, then for undergrads, sparked intense protests and a lawsuit. More...
Research shows one in 20 students has worked in sex industry to fund lifestyles, just get by or reduce debts, with more men than women involved.
Research by Swansea University shows one in 20 students has worked in the sex industry while studying for a degree, and men are more likely to do so than women.
Students are involved in everything from prostitution and escorting to stripping and internet work, the Student Sex Work Project report found. More...
By Jen T. Kwok (NTEU National Office). The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) applauds the decision of the Senate to reject the second attempt by the Abbott Government to price a university education out of the reach of ordinary Australians. The Senate emphatically voted down the deregulation of university fees, the cutting of government funding and the subsidising of private education profiteers. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
