By Jan Petter Myklebust. Universities face a 2% cut in their budget every year over the next four years, following an announcement by Minister of Children, Education and Gender Equality Ellen Trane Nørby and Minister of Education and Science Esben Lunde Larsen that the Danish education sector will no longer be ring-fenced in government budgets. Read more...
By Jan Petter Myklebust and Ian R Dobson. The decision to adjust central finances will reduce the government’s spending in 2016 by around €900 million (US$993 million), and the savings to be made within the school education and higher education portfolios will reduce funding by approximately €210 million. But even with these cuts in the budget, the current estimate is that the central government deficit will grow from €100 billion in 2015 to €106 billion in 2016. Read more...
Today’s Productivity paper from HM Treasury provides yet more evidence, if any were needed, that the Conservative-majority Government is doing things differently to the Conservative-led Coalition.
The 2010 to 2015 Government made one early decision that transformed the finances of some alternative higher education providers (known as APs) when allowing their home/EU students to borrow up to £6,000 for tuition. More...
By Selina Chignall. Like a canary in a coal mine, Canadian educators are watching austerity-driven cuts to public education in Europe — and warn that austerity measures affecting education in Canada could be made worse by the prospects of an extended recession. Read more...
By Don Troop. The U.S. House of Representatives passed bipartisan legislation on Friday that would increase the National Institutes of Health’s budget by $8.75 billion over the next five years, The New York Times and The Washington Post reported on Friday. More...
By . Student debt, property prices and unemployment conspire against college leavers. And we don’t even qualify for Osborne’s ‘national living wage’. More...
By John Morgan. Funding council details how cash will be saved from English universities’ 2014-15 and 2015-16 budgets after George Osborne demanded extra cuts. More...
By Celeste Liddle (Indigenous). The effects of the 2014 Federal Government Budget cuts to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (A&TSI) programs are still impacting our communities quite dramatically. In the 2015 Closing the Gap report it was shown that on most indicators, there has been no improvement, with some even going backwards. More...
By Paul Clifton (NTEU National Office). This diagram appears in the July 2015 edition of Advocate. More...
By . Universities will be able to raise fees from their record level of £9,000 a year, the Chancellor has declared.
He made it clear that those who could show good quality would be allowed to raise their fees by the level of inflation from the academic year 2017/8. More...
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