By Ashley A. Smith. Tennessee's free community college program is exceeding expectations. Demand remains high and the state's completion rates for federal aid applications are up, which is putting colleges on notice about a likely influx of students. Read more...
By Nicholas Watt. Shadow chancellor rebuts claims George Osborne has shot Labour’s fox on university tuition fees, after chancellor pledges to cut lifetime pension cap. Read more...By Daniel Hurst and Lenore Taylor. The education minister, Christopher Pyne, said on Monday the government would also remove $1.9bn in course funding cuts from the legislation so that senators could vote this week on the “vital reform” of letting institutions set their own fees. Read more...By David Ellis. Tuition fees are no longer the problem and cutting them no longer benefits the right people; it's the maintenance loan that urgently needs to be looked at, argues David Ellis. Read more...
By . Plans to uncap tuition fees in Australia have been defeated in the country’s upper house for the second time in four months. More...
By . George Osborne has announced that the government will offer PhD and research-based master’s students income-contingent loans of up to £25,000. More...
By Beckie Smith. France should increase the amount it charges tertiary non-EU students and use the proceeds to internationalise its higher education system, a strategic unit connected to the Prime Minister’s office has said. More...
By Andy Thomason. A bill that would tie tuition at public colleges in Washington State to a portion of the average state wage passed the State Senate on Wednesday, The Spokesman-Review reports. More...
By Daniel Hurst. Australian universities’ use of student funding for projects that boost their global rankings raises questions over how they would spend deregulation windfall. Read more...It’s said that Ed Milliband is cutting tuition fees in an attempt to get the student vote in marginal constituencies which have a large student population. One such constituency is Bristol West. I know a man who was delivering student electoral registration forms in that area last week. The pay is good, £1.60 per form, and there are usually four or five envelopes per house. He earned £400 on a few evenings and was pleased. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
