By Matt Zalaznick. Campus financial aid planners wrestle with competing drives: Increase diversity or woo high achievers.
Financial aid is in a state of flux, but an institution’s size and selectivity offer clues to what kind of student assistance gets prioritized. More...
By Stephen Koukoulas. When the cost of something rises, demand falls. So the Medicare co-payment and university deregulation may mean people are a little sicker and a little more ignorant. More...
Complaints about tuition fees arrive with the start of each new university year.
Recently, Statistics Canada released its annual survey of tuition fees across the country. This year, the average undergraduate paid $5,959 in tuition fees. The average Alberta tuition fee was lower, at $5,730; the highest tuition rate is found in Ontario, at $7,539 for an undergraduate, or almost one-third higher than the fees faced by students in Alberta.
The lowest tuition fees are in Quebec; students there paid just $2,743 in tuition. More...
By Andrew Trounson for The Australian. As Australia prepares to deregulate the setting of tuition prices, experts there are warning that universities will adopt a heretofore foreign practice that is common in the United States: discounting prices. Read more...
By Claire Shaw. A new report shows there are plenty of unanswered questions about lifting the cap – we address the key concerns. Along with tuition fees and the inclusion of international students in net migration targets, the plan to lift the cap on student numbers is one of the most debated topics in UK higher education. Read more...
By Jan Petter Myklebust. The pilot project in which nine Finnish universities and 10 polytechnics charged tuition fees from some non-European masters students closes at the end of this year. But already most of the institutions have announced that they will not claim fees from students admitted this coming autumn. More...
Wouldn’t it be great if college were free? Actually, some colleges in the United States are free to all students. And if you and your child are willing to expand your horizons beyond the U.S. borders, you have many additional free options.
If you are willing to pay just a little more than nothing, check into the public universities in these countries, where tuition fees are negligible, depending on course of study: Argentina, Austria, France, Malaysia, Mexico, Spain, and Turkey. More...
By Paul Kniest. The Minister for Education Christopher Pyne and other supporters of his proposed changes to higher education funding and regulation have dismissed claims of $100,000 university degrees as exorbitant.
The Vice Chancellors who are supporting the government’s policy agenda could simply come out and declare that their university will not be charging $100,000 for any of its degrees should the government’s higher education bill be passed. More...
By Claire Shaw. Universities minister says he is ‘not persuaded’ by the argument for raising fees to take into account increased costs. Universities minister Greg Clark has ruled out increasing tuition fees and making further cuts to higher education. Read more.... The University System of Maryland could expand its tuition remission program for the dependent children and spouses of employees.
Under the current program, spouses and dependent children can attend the employee's college without paying any tuition. The spouse or dependent child can also get a 50 percent discount on college tuition at another college in the state system if the student is in an academic program not offered at the employee's institution. Read more...
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