Announcing a long-awaited review of education funding for over-18s in England, the prime minister will say that reserving university for the middle class and vocational training “for other people’s children” is outdated. More...
The High Cost of Failed Innovation
By John Warner. Hopefully, as we understand the overpromises and hype of MOOCs and personalized learning and other initiatives which pledge to transform education practically overnight, we can get to a much more rigorous, more rational, and less wasteful approach to pursuing innovation in education. More...
The Cost of Attending For-Profits
By Scott Jaschik. A new analysis finds that students enrolling in certificate programs are more likely to experience economic gains from enrolling in programs at public institutions, generally community colleges, than at for-profit institutions. Further, the analysis finds that people may be better off economically by not pursuing any postsecondary education than by enrolling in a certificate program at a for-profit. More...
Students & The Cost of Higher Education
Students & The Cost of Higher Education
Tim Klapdor, Heart | Soul | Machine, 2017/12/26
Tim Klapdor writes about the reasons for "the end of demand driven education" in the UK. This is the idea that the system would be prepared to educate those students who wanted to learn. More...
MSU decreases required credit hours to cut costs for students
Following the tune of MU’s recent cost-saving initiatives, Missouri State University President Clifton Smart announced Thursday a five-point plan to boost the university’s affordability. More...
Get ready for the launch: New HEPI report on the costs/benefits of international students
On Thursday 11th January, HEPI will get the New Year off to a strong start with our first event of 2018. In conjunction with Kaplan International and London Economics, we will launch a new report uncovering the costs and benefits of international students in the UK. The results will also be broken down by parliamentary constituency. More...
Sweet Briar's Curriculum Comes at a Cost
By Rick Seltzer. Small private women's college is cutting more than 10 percent of its faculty as it overhauls curriculum. More...
The Cost of an Aging Professoriate
By . You may have read recently about how Canada is really sticking it to junior researchers. Dalhousie’s Julia Wright recently wrote about Canada haemorrhaging early-career research capacity and she has a point – just in the last seven years, the proportion of Canadian faculty aged 40 or less has fallen by a third, from roughly 22% to just over 15%. More...
University introduces new initiative to partner with students to reduce upfront costs of college
Income share agreement program provides funding and advising to help students pay for college and prepare for success beyond graduation. More...
