Par Emmanuelle Bastide. Certains pays, comme le Royaume-Uni ont décidé d'imposer des frais universitaires plus élevés à leurs étudiants extra-européens. En France, doit-on faire de même ? Quelles seraient les conséquences d'une telle réforme ?
- Antoine Grassin, directeur général de Campus France.
- Jean-Loup Salzmann, président de la Conférence des Présidents d’Universités.
- Yves Poilane, président de la Commission internationale de la Conférence des Grandes Ecoles et directeur de Telecom Paritech.
Pour plus d'informations, vous pouvez lire le rapport sur l'internationalisation de l'Enseignement supérieur. Voir l'article...

By Nigel Carrington. Ed Miliband has faced down internal and external criticism for his proposal to cut undergraduate tuition fees. Now we need a funding formula which also pays for postgraduates and research. Miliband's determination to force through the cut makes sense, given the symbolic value of fees to a Labour manifesto with a core appeal to young people. More...

By Andrew Trounson. LEVYING a tax on university fees is a better way to limit the risk of excessive price increases in a deregulated market compared with capping prices or loans, according to sector expert David Phillips.
Education Minister Christopher Pyne is understood to be giving serious consideration to proposals from Mr Phillips and economist Bruce Chapman to charge a progressive tax on university fee increases above set thresholds. The details of how such a system could work are likely to be included in submissions to the latest Senate inquiry into higher education.
The tax is aimed at addressing concerns that cheap HECS loans and status seeking could drive up fees excessively under deregulation. More...

A lot of parents start worrying about paying for college education soon after their child is born. After that, there's the stressful process of applying to colleges, and then, for those lucky enough to get admitted into a good college, there's college debt.
But author Kevin Carey argues that those problems might be overcome in the future with online higher education. Carey directs the Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation. In his new book, The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere, Carey envisions a future in which "the idea of 'admission' to college will become an anachronism, because the University of Everywhere will be open to everyone" and "educational resources that have been scarce and expensive for centuries will be abundant and free." More...