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26 octobre 2014

Plans to drop fees could lower quality

By Carlos Olivares. After becoming the first country in Latin America to introduce tuition fees, Chile’s government has pledged to move towards scrapping them. But universities wonder if this will lead to a less effective, lower quality higher education system and who it will benefit most? Read more...

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26 octobre 2014

A grand social experiment

By Claire Callender. The British government radically reformed the funding of undergraduate higher education in England in 2012-13 – to make higher education financially sustainable, to improve the student experience, and to increase social mobility. Read more...

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26 octobre 2014

Fees have little effect, says nine-country study

By Mike Teece. A study of changes in higher education financing in nine European countries that included the impact of higher student fees, has uncovered little evidence of a fall-off in demand resulting from universities charging students more.
Commissioned by the European Commission and conducted by Canadian higher education expert Alex Usher, the study found that “rises in fees seemingly have no detectable negative effect on aggregate demand and enrolment – unless the change is exceptionally large”. Read more...

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26 octobre 2014

Public system far cheaper than for-profit

By Lachlan Murdoch. America’s higher education system comprises around 4,300 degree-granting institutions that enrol nearly 18 million undergraduate students. Three-quarters of all undergraduates and two-thirds of students with bachelor degrees are enrolled at public institutions where they are charged substantially lower fees and take out fewer and smaller loans than those at private institutions. Read more...

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26 octobre 2014

Going Global 2015: Call for proposals now open

Are you a leader with first-hand experience in working across cultures? Have you got practical ideas or policy suggestions that would drive cutting-edge innovation? Going Global invites you to submit a topic for a bold and creative session at the 2015 conference – the world’s largest open forum for leaders of non-compulsory education. Read more...

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26 octobre 2014

Loan defaulters barred from leaving

By Emilia Tan. With the cost of university education rising faster than inflation and increasing sums taken out in loans, more and more students are defaulting on their loan repayments. For some, this means being barred from leaving the country. Read more...

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26 octobre 2014

Rising fees cloud international hub status

By Emilia Tan. Rising university fees for international students are casting a cloud over Singapore’s future as an Asian regional hub for international students – particularly from the rest of Asia. This is despite many parents in the region believing that paying for education is a good investment.
A report by the HSBC Bank The Value of Education found that families in Asia were willing to pay high fees, but recent developments in the city state have shown that tolerance levels for high fees are being reached. Read more...

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26 octobre 2014

Higher education is not cheap

By Munyaradzi Makoni. The decline in government funding of higher education, along with rapidly rising costs of the different services and products that universities have to provide, have led to steady increases in student outlays over the last decade. There are no indications that costs will go down, neither are there signals that one day university education will be free – as called for by some student association groups. Read more...

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26 octobre 2014

Record numbers drop out facing financial problems

By Suvendrini Kakuchi. Despite being one of the world’s largest economies, Japan is reporting a record number of dropouts among university students who cite financial difficulties. Read more...

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26 octobre 2014

Fees phased out although arguments remain

By Michael Gardner. All of Germany’s federal states have now done away with general tuition fees at public-funded institutions. However, the view is still held by some that fees ought to provide an extra source of income for universities. Read more...

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