By Daniel Hurst. Christopher Pyne tells senators they will have another opportunity to vote on the proposed changes after the Christmas break. More...By Richard Adams. Conservatives and Lib Dems likely to lose student votes to Labour, leaving ministers’ seats in peril, say analysts. More...
By Courtney Sloane (NTEU National Office). The NTEU has today hit back at Christopher Pyne’s compromise higher education package, saying that tinkering around the edges wouldn’t address soaring fees under a deregulated system.
Speaking from Canberra today, where the NTEU are talking to cross-bench Senators about the disastrous impact deregulation will have on universities and students, Assistant National Secretary Matthew McGowan said that the amendments were a desperate, last ditch attempt to hide the true impact of deregulation. More...
By Courtney Sloane (NTEU National Office). Yet again, the Abbott Government has ignored the public, university staff, students and their families in refusing to dump their unfair university changes.
Instead, it has cobbled together a shopping list in a bid to savagely cut public investment in our universities and allow the cost of some degrees to rise to over $100,000. More...
Par Amélie Petitdemange. Après la visite de François Hollande au Canada début novembre, le sujet épineux des frais de scolarité très bas réservés aux étudiants français est encore en discussion. Une commission gouvernementale a notamment préconisé un quota d’étudiants français et une dérèglementation de leur financement. Suite...
NORWAY: The government has backed down from plans to introduce tuition fees. The Norwegian student union NSO celebrates victory after a strong campaign.
The Norwegian government had proposed that students from outside the EU and the European Economic Area (EEA) pay fees to study at Norwegian universities and colleges. But after a well-fought campaign by the National Union of Students in Norway, the measure has been scrapped. More...
Finnish universities are bending to the current government’s desire to introduce tuition fees for higher education students arriving from outside the EU and EEA. Students and youth organisations roundly condemn the move, seeing it as a threat to not only equal education, but also the national economy. More...
By Simona Chiose. The Quebec government will continue to give postsecondary students from France a break on tuition compared with other international students, but it is reviewing an agreement that saw this group pay the same tuition fees as Quebec students. The issue was the subject of high-level discussions between Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard and French President François Hollande during the latter’s visit to Canada this month. Read more...
By John W. Schoen. It may be good news for students and parents, but slower tuition increases are putting renewed budget pressure on public colleges and universities.
Just as the lingering impact of Great Recession fades, roughly half of public universities say they don't expect tuition to even keep up with inflation, according to a survey by Moody's Investors Service. More...
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