13 avril 2017
13 avril 2017
Free tuition for EU students in Scottish universities
Scotland’s Education Secretary John Swinney has announced that students from the European Union enrolling in Scotland next year will have free tuition throughout their courses, writes Andrew Denholm for The Herald. More...
13 avril 2017
Academia needs to be ready to defend its freedom
By Marit Egner. When I started working at the University of Oslo 10 years ago, the university’s involvement with Scholars at Risk was on my list of responsibilities. Scholars at Risk is an international network of more than 450 higher education institutions, cooperating to protect threatened scholars and promote academic freedom. More...
13 avril 2017
Students told to drop safe spaces, no-platform policies
Students are being told to drop ‘safe spaces’ and no-platform policies as the universities and science minister is ordering universities to protect freedom of speech, writes Katie French for the Mail Online. More...
13 avril 2017
What Kind of Free Is Speech Online?
By Barbara Fister. A Pew Research has just published a fascinating in-depth report titled “The Future of Free Speech Online.” (The PDF version of the study is 75 pages – there’s a lot to it.) Read more...
12 avril 2017
Senate passes bill for free public university tuition
By Brennan Weiss. The Philippines Senate has approved a landmark bill to provide free tuition for students in all state universities and colleges. The Free Higher Education for All Act was passed unanimously last Monday by a vote of 18-0. More...11 avril 2017
The Free Certificate Movement
By Ashley A. Smith. But in Indiana, a new proposal -- the Workforce Ready Grant -- would instead offer free community college to those students who want a certificate in a high-demand field. While the certificates would vary by program, they typically take anywhere from 18 to 34 credit hours to complete or at most one year for a full-time student. Read more...
11 avril 2017
A Promise With Limits
By Ashley A. Smith. Arkansas becomes latest state to create a free community college plan. But it limits programs of study and could require some recipients to pay back the money. Read more...
11 avril 2017
In-Your-Face Free Speech
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. A new group of Harvard undergraduates seeks to highlight First Amendment rights by inviting the most controversial speakers possible to address the campus. Read more...
11 avril 2017
Tax Millionaires to Pay for Free Public Tuition?
By Scott Jaschik. Just a week after California legislators unveiled a plan to provide debt-free public higher education, a legislator has proposed a new way to do so. Read more...
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