By Stefanie Botelho. America’s most prominent public universities were founded to serve the people of their states, but they are enrolling record numbers of students from elsewhere to maximize tuition revenue as state support for higher education withers. More...
By Stefanie Botelho. Maryland hopes to be the fourth state to offer free community college to recent high school graduates, but the effort to do so faces an uphill challenge because legislators cannot agree on how to spend the state’s surplus money. More...
By Stefanie Botelho. Virginians who want to know where their state tax dollars are going, and families concerned about what their tuition money pays for, may be surprised at the answers they get to these questions from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. More...
By and . Many South Africans hoped that President Jacob Zuma would use his 2016 State of the Nation Address to discuss what’s become known as the #FeesMustFall movement. Since late 2015, university students have led a national call for a freeze on tuition fees and substantial changes to how universities are managed. More...By . “Free education in our lifetime” is the campaign slogan many students have adopted in the recent protests across South Africa against university fee increases. More...
By Ellen Wexler. A new study asserts that increased student aid, not faculty salaries or state cutbacks, drives prices higher. Read more...
Attending college tuition-free is a reality today for 90 percent of City University of New York community-college students and for more than 66 percent of all full-time CUNY college students in baccalaureate and associate degree programs. For these mostly low-income students, low tuition, federal and state financial aid, and federal tax credits make possible a quality college education. More...
By Martin Robbins. For years I believed that tuition fees promoted inequality. But not only could scrapping fees be a terrible idea, there’s also a far better place to put the money. More...
Academics are concerned that Finns may soon be asked to pay tuition fees to attend local universities. Two prominent academics said they believe that the introduction of the charge for non-EU students may soon extend to locals and other European Union nationals, reports Yle. Read more...
By Harriet Alexander. Harvard University is being challenged to consider scrapping its £31,000-a-year tuition fees, in a bid to make the university more accessible. Read more...
/https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
