By Gary Stocker. There is a generally-accepted practice in business to see how best practices in one industry can be transferred to another. As the higher education industry looks for new models to provide a college education at an affordable price — and to move away from annual tuition increases as the main mechanism to keep net revenues higher — I keep going back to the dynamic and consumer-centered pricing model championed by Priceline. More...

By Karen Seidman. More value on education than other jurisdictions, research shows. Quebec students’ hard-fought battle to keep tuition fees low means that the province’s university students have to work significantly fewer hours at minimum wage jobs than their counterparts across the country to pay for their education, according to new interactive research from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). More...

By Todd Pettigrew. Why it’s time for drastic changes in how we pay for higher education. When it comes to their new premier Stephen McNeil, Nova Scotia university students have lately come to feel like love-lorn girls plucking petals off of a daisy.
First came the news that McNeil’s Liberals would not charge students interest on their student loans, saving debt-burdened grads some $800 on an average-sized loan.
He loves me.
But then followed the announcement that the government was cancelling a rebate program that saw grads who stayed in Nova Scotia getting back up to $15 000.
He loves me not. More...

By Konstantinos Menzel. Students and families with expectations of attending a university or a technological educational institute (TEI) in Greece is a definite effort that requires sacrifices from all the family. It is estimated that the preparation of a student for the forthcoming entrance examinations to pursue Greek higher education is setting the family at least €14,000 back. See more...