Following decisions taken at the HEFCE Board meeting on 9 March, HEFCE will invest £3.7 billion in recurrent and capital funding for universities and colleges in the academic year 2016-17. More...
18 avril 2016
Universities need new funding models and African donors
By Wachira Kigotho. Faced with donor fatigue and declining public funding, universities across Sub-Saharan Africa should search for new models of financing specific initiatives such as hubs for research and innovation. One proposal from higher education experts gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, recently was to tap Africa’s growing number of billionaires. Read more...
13 avril 2016
Funding of £3.7 billion for higher education in 2016-17
Pressure to redirect funds spent on student financing
By Jan Petter Myklebust. Proposals to redirect funding from Denmark’s student financing system to universities, thus shifting more of the costs of higher education to students, have met with opposition from Akademikerne – the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations, an umbrella organisation with 25 associations and 336,000 members who are typically employees with an undergraduate or postgraduate degree. More...
09 avril 2016
Confirmation ministérielle que les conseils départementaux ne pourront plus financer les actions d’orientation
Sur le blog de Michel Abhervé pour Alternatives économiques. Dans les réponses des ministres à un certain nombre de questions écrites des parlementaires, les évitements, les non réponses sont souvent plus révélatrices que le contenu de réponses qui est souvent un modèle de cette magnifique langue de bois qu’apprécient nos technocrates. Suite...
03 avril 2016
Understanding financial responsibility scores for private colleges
By . The stories of financially struggling private colleges, both nonprofit and for-profit, have been told in many news articles. Small private nonprofit colleges are increasing tuition discount rates in an effort to attract a shrinking pool of traditional-age students in many parts of the country, while credit rating agency Moody’s expects the number of private nonprofit college closings to triple to about 15 per year by next year. More...
Kentucky Governor Orders Immediate Cut in Funds to Universities
By Charles Huckabee. Gov. Matthew G. Bevin of Kentucky on Thursday ordered state officials to cut the quarterly funding allotment that the state is scheduled to send out to universities and colleges on Friday by 4.5 percent, The Courier-Journal reports. More...
31 mars 2016
Better together: Colleges form academic alliances
By Sherrie Negrea. Groups of institutions provide new learning and research opportunities—and expand funding. More...27 mars 2016
Fund-Raising for Millennials
By Carl Straumsheim. Elizabethtown College launches an online-first capital campaign to test the power of social media in higher education fund-raising. Black tie not required. Read more...
15 mars 2016
Plaidoyer pour des « financements endogènes » de la recherche scientifique africaine
Le professeur Mary Teuw Niane, ministre de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche du Sénégal, a plaidé, jeudi à Dakar, pour « des financements endogènes » de la recherche scientifique sur le continent, affirmant que celle-ci ne peut être menée en dehors de la recherche scientifique mondiale. Voir l'article...
