By . The University of Sunderland has joined a growing list of institutions who have decided to waive fees for language students on a study year abroad. Until the academic year 2012-13, there was a full fee waiver for any such year abroad for students in England. More...
By Matthew McGowan. Polling commissioned by the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) shows that 70% of Australians oppose university fee increases for students and that higher education reforms are one of the most unpopular measures in the budget. The figures confirm that the community are angry about the broken election commitment not to alter university funding arrangements, as well as policies that would see students from poorer backgrounds locked out of quality education.
“These are budget measures that Christopher Pyne and the Government kept secret before the election for a reason,” said Jeannie Rea, NTEU National President.
“On top of a 20% cut in government funding to universities, students will face debts of over $100,000 and repayments well into their 40s and 50s. Women and poorer students will be the most affected by these changes. 55% of Australians disagreed with the Government’s move to a more “Americanised” system.
“Australians do not want an Americanised system. They want to protect the current system that trains students for high skilled jobs, promotes research and critical thinking, and one that is equal and accessible,” Rea said. The poll showed that vast majorities of Australians think savings would be better targeted at high income earners, through implementing a mining tax or by closing superannuation tax loopholes for the wealthy.
UMR Post-Budget Message Testing Analysis. More...
By Phil Hill. With Unizin going public yesterday, I’ve been looking over our three posts at e-Literate to see if there are any corrections or clarifications needed.
SOUTH Australia’s three public universities will lose $78 million over the next four years as local students are forced to pay thousands and even tens of thousands more for their degree, analysis shows.
State Government number crunching on the effect of the Federal Government’s higher education Budget measures show a basic three-year humanities degree could cost at least $10,000 more – up to $29,000. University of Adelaide’s six-year medicine degree could rise to at least $80,000. The modelling shows engineering students face a steep fee hike as their four-year degrees rises from $34,500 to at least $53,000. Premier Jay Weatherill said the Federal Government’s “Americanisation” of Australia’s universities would make higher education unaffordable. More...
By Matthew Knott. Fee deregulation will reverse the "dumbing down" of higher education and the era of "one-size-fits-all" universities, according to one of the icons of Australian science.
Harry Messel, who was Head of Physics at the University of Sydney for 35 years, was last week awarded the Academy Medal, one of the Australian Academy of Science's highest honours. The author of the Messel "blue book", once ubiquitous in Australian high schools, founded the International Science School and is a former vice-chancellor of Bond University. Read more...
By Eric Kelderman. In recent years, a few student groups have come up with ideas to pay their tuition and fees with a portion of their income earned after graduating. For example, the UC Student Investment Proposal has been proposed by students at the University of California at Riverside, and the Pay It Forward concept developed in a class at Portland State University. More...
By Telegraph View. As the cost of education has gone up, so too have the expectations of undergraduates. It would be nice to live in a world where no complaint is ever necessary – but sometimes a rise in complaints is a healthy sign of growing consumer power. Take higher education, where a freedom of information request reveals that more than 20,000 students paying tuition fees have expressed dissatisfaction in the past year. That represents a jump of 10 per cent, and possibly shows that as the cost of education has gone up, so too have the expectations of undergraduates. Read more...By A N Wilson. As record numbers of students complain that the teaching is not worth the fees, A N Wilson argues that it is impossible to put a value on eccentric dons, time-wasting and learning to think. Read more...
By Fran Abrams. More than 20,000 students complained to their universities last year, a Freedom of Information request by the BBC has shown. Responses from 120 universities across the UK revealed that total academic appeals and complaints were 10% higher in 2012-13 than in 2010-11.
Universities Minister David Willetts welcomed the finding. He said it showed that students were demanding more for the £9,000-per-year fee. More...
By Damian Whitworth. At a pavement cafe on a cobbled, tree-lined square in the old heart of Maastricht, a group of British students sip their pilsners and reflect on the differences between university life in the Netherlands and Britain. Hannah Patterson, 19, a first-year European studies student at Maastricht University, waves her hand at the square, where people of all ages are drinking, picking at plates of food and babbling English to each other in every conceivable accent. Read more...
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