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28 août 2013

Obama: Higher education not 'a luxury'

http://www.upi.com/img/upi_logo.pngU.S. President Barack Obamasaid Saturday higher education is "an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford."
In his weekly radio and Internet address, the president spoke about stops he made this week to promote his proposals for "a better bargain for the middle class."
The tour included visits with high school and college students in New York and Pennsylvania to discuss higher education. Read more...

26 août 2013

Many international students still waiting for visas to study in Canada

http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/media/www/images/flag/gam-masthead.pngBy James Bradshaw. Just days before thousands of students around the world are set to leave home to begin earning a Canadian education, some still don’t know whether they will be allowed into Canada in time to start school.
An ongoing strike by the Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers (PAFSO) has caused a backlog in processing visas of all types, including those required for international students landing at Canadian colleges and universities. The rate of visa approvals has dropped by 15 per cent, and there has been a 5 per cent decline in requests for visas, a PAFSO representative said. More...

26 août 2013

L’apprentissage allemand semble être en perte de vitesse

http://e-orientations.com/imgs/orientation-etudes-metier-emploi.gifOutre-Rhin, 147 000 offres de contrats d’apprentissage sont pour le moment restées vacantes… Pourtant considéré par beaucoup comme un modèle solide et ayant fait ses preuves, l’apprentissage en Allemagne est en perte de vitesse selon l’Agence fédérale pour l’emploi. Un constat qui n’inquiète pas pour autant les pouvoirs publics.
Malgré les 518 000 candidatures pour 469 000 contrats d’apprentissage offerts par l’Allemagne, seulement 322 000 offres ont finalement été pourvues. Le modèle d’apprentissage allemand, pourtant très apprécié et dupliqué par de nombreux pays, semble être en pleine perte de vitesse. Suite...

25 août 2013

Elephant in the Room on Proposed White House College Ratings: Data

http://higheredwatch.newamerica.net/sites/all/themes/nafbase/images/logo.pngBy Clare McCann. President Obama’s new higher education proposal, just announced in a speech at SUNY-Buffalo this morning, would require the Department of Education to develop college ratings that highlight schools’ value by the 2014-15 school year. Once the ratings are developed, the plan is to then tie federal dollars to performance. Though students could continue to choose whichever college they want, federal dollars, at least, would be funneled toward the highest-value programs (and presumably, funneled away from the lowest-value programs). A ratings system along the proposed dimensions of access, affordability, and outcomes would provide students and families much deeper and better information about the quality and cost of their prospective colleges than they have now. More...

25 août 2013

A Rapid Analysis of New Ed Department Data

http://higheredwatch.newamerica.net/sites/all/themes/nafbase/images/logo.pngBy Clare McCann and Ben Miller. Today, the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics released its quadrennial survey of student financial aid. We are publishing our own rapid analysis of the new data, highlighting trends in borrowing and grant aid across different incomes, institutions, and other variables.
1. High Borrowing Rates among Pell Grant Students
These latest data from the Department of Education show that students receiving Pell Grants last year still had to employ student loans to pay for their college educations. In particular, more and more students at community colleges and private nonprofit universities had to borrow to pay for school. Students at for-profit colleges who receive Pell Grants still borrowed at the highest rate of any institution type, however, at 87.5 percent. More...

25 août 2013

A Path Forward For Higher Ed Innovations Such as Prior Learning Assessment

http://higheredwatch.newamerica.net/sites/all/themes/nafbase/images/logo.pngBy Lindsey Tepe. Today, as the President announced his new plan to make college more affordable, one of the three broad goals in his ambitious agenda focused on promoting innovation and competition in higher education. Plans like these are typically light on the details, asking for more investment – see the President’s Pre-K plan – and calling for legislative changes that are unrealistic in today’s political climate. Fortunately, this part of the plan seeks to capitalize on an existing policy tool that can help spur innovation by removing regulatory barriers: the Experimental Sites Initiative. For those who haven’t read through Title IV lately in the Higher Education Act, you may be scratching your heads and wondering what exactly experimental sites are. Well, in the 1992 Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, Congress gave the Department of Education a powerful tool to test and refine innovative ideas in higher education. More...

25 août 2013

President Obama Aims to "Shake Things Up" in Higher Ed

http://higheredwatch.newamerica.net/sites/all/themes/nafbase/images/logo.pngBy Rachel Fishman and Amy Laitinen. When President Obama said he was going to “shake things up” in higher education just under a month ago, many of us didn’t really believe it, fatigued from lofty presidential promises that failed to go anywhere due to Congressional gridlock and the effective workings of the higher education lobby. Well, we were wrong. This week he revealed his bold new vision for higher education that will focus on three key areas: paying for performance, promoting innovation and competition, and ensuring that student debt remains affordable. The first priority—paying for performance—could be the most ambitious reform to higher education funding since the creation of federal financial aid. Speaking to a large crowd of mostly college students at SUNY Buffalo, Obama explained, “Our first priority is aimed at providing better value for students -- making sure that families and taxpayers are getting what we pay for. More...

25 août 2013

Obama Proposes New System for Rating Colleges

http://www.diversepodium.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/newheaderd.jpgBy Julie Pace. Calling higher education an “economic imperative,” President Barack Obama is pushing for an ambitious new government rating system for colleges that would judge schools on affordability and performance and ultimately determine how federal financial aid is distributed.
The rating system, which the president wants implemented before the 2015 school year, would evaluate colleges on several criteria, including average tuition and student loan debt, graduation rates, and the average earning of graduates. Obama says he will ask Congress to link the new rating system to the way federal financial aid is disbursed, with students attending highly-rated schools receiving larger grants and more affordable student loans. More...

25 août 2013

President Sees an Obamacare Solution to Higher Ed’s Problems

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/next-45.pngBy Jeff Selingo. Higher ed, welcome to Obamacare. Frustrated by how his policies of the past four years haven’t stalled rising college-tuition prices or moved the needle on the number of students, particularly low-income students, graduating from college, President Obama took on the higher-ed establishment on Thursday, declaring bluntly that the federal government cannot just keep chasing college prices with federal aid but not getting better results. More...

25 août 2013

Mr. President: Don’t Cave to the Higher-Education Lobby

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/the-conversation-logo1-45.pngBy Sara Goldrick-Rab. Over all, I’m a fan of President Obama’s proposal to rate colleges and link the results to financial aid. The plan is to give students attending institutions rated high—on such measures as tuition and graduation rates, debt and earnings of graduates, and the percentage of low-income students enrolled—larger grants, as well as lower-interest loans. The proposal ends the “tinkering” that most higher-education reform has pursued; it aims squarely at the main drivers of college costs: private and for-profit institutions (and their happy followers, the elite public flagships) and states. That is the approach my colleagues and I argued for in a recent paper for the American Enterprise Institute. More...

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