20 avril 2016
20 avril 2016
Ontario government facing criticism over deceptive ‘free’ tuition proposal
By Jane Taber. The Ontario government is facing criticism over the way it is promoting its move to make tuition free for some college students and help others, including university students, with some of their costs. Read more...20 avril 2016
'Free' tuition isn't exactly free, Wynne notes
By Allison Jones. Premier Kathleen Wynne says she worried about her government pitching a new student grant program as providing "free" tuition, since there are caveats. The Liberal government announced in its recent budget that it is combining existing programs to create an Ontario Student Grant, which would pay for average college or university tuition for students from families with incomes of $50,000 or less. Read more...14 avril 2016
$100,000 degrees: Turnbull's big new tax on uni students
By Andrew MacDonald. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is therefore asking if the Turnbull government intends to effectively tax students by proceeding with higher education fee increases, public funding cuts and fee deregulation? Is the government’s plan to reduce student access to higher education. More...
14 avril 2016
Increasing university fees by 25 per cent part of Turnbull’s ‘Bad Ideas Boom’
By Andrew MacDonald. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) says that the Turnbull government commitment to increased investment in a more innovative Australia is nothing but empty rhetoric following Education Minister Senator Simon Birmingham’s very strong indication that the Budget will increase university fees by 25%. More...
14 avril 2016
Universities expected to drag business out of the innovation dark ages (Advocate 23 01)
By Paul Kniest. Following its dismal failure to convince the Australian public or the Senate of the merits of fee deregulation and public funding cuts, the Coalition Government under the new leadership of Malcolm Turnbull launched its much publicised and anticipated National Innovation and Science Agenda (NISA) on Monday 7 December 2015. This changes the focus of the Coalition’s higher education policy away from the funding and regulation of education to research and research training. More...
13 avril 2016
Government plan would slug uni students with a 25 per cent fee increase
By Andrew MacDonald. According to a report this morning, the Minister for Education and Training, Senator Simon Birmingham, is planning to increase the proportion of university fees payable by students under the income contingent HELP scheme by 10 per cent, to an average 50 per cent of the cost of a degree. More...
13 avril 2016
À Dauphine, la première année de licence coûtera désormais entre 0 et... 2 200 euros
Par Aude Bariéty. L’université Paris-Dauphine a voté le 21 mars un plan de réforme de son diplôme de 1er cycle: renforcement de l’ouverture à l’international et de certains programmes, mais aussi et surtout modularité des frais de scolarité. Suite...
13 avril 2016
Internationalisation policy for universities on the cards
By Stephen Coan. Measures designed to facilitate the enrolment of foreign students and academics at South African universities and to eliminate current bureaucratic chaos centred around immigration regulations were announced at a Research and Innovation Dialogue held in Johannesburg from 7-8 April. More...
6 avril 2016
University Fee De-regulation: Markets, Strategy and Pricing
Understanding market dynamics, student demand and competitors as well as the cost of provision will be critical to developing institutional and pricing strategies in a deregulated higher education market. More...
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