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30 mars 2014

Labour may cut students' tuition fees to £6,000 a year

By Patrick Wintour. Party's election manifesto will include commitment to scrap government's £9,000 fees but long-term policy still undecided. Labour's manifesto for next year's election will include a pledge to scrap the coalition's £9,000-a-year tuition fees and may replace it with a maximum of £6,000, Douglas Alexander has confirmed. Read more...

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30 mars 2014

Tuition fees blunder: 'there's no need for this spiralling public cost'

By Claire Shaw. From non-subsidised government loans to a graduate tax, three higher education professionals suggest how to move forward from the tuition fees debacle. There are two fundamental problems with the current university funding system that need fixing. One is the high subsidy on student loans, the other is that postgraduate students – those seeking to retrain or up-skill – do not have access to a loan to cover the cost of the upfront tuition fee. Read more...

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30 mars 2014

Universities minister refuses to rule out increase in tuition fees

By Rowena Mason. Labour warns of 'financial timebomb' and embarrassment for Lib Dems over errors in funding reform. The Conservative universities minister has refused to rule out raising tuition fees for students after the next election, amid warnings from Labour that the current system is a "financial timebomb" that will leave a big hole in higher education funding. Read more...

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30 mars 2014

The latest tuition fees blunder shows the need for mass student protest

By Michael Chessum. Of course the new system of fees will cost more to run than the old one, yet Labour and the NUS let the coalition away with it. The revelation that the new tuition fees system – introduced in 2010 in the face of massive student protest – will in fact cost more to run than the old one, should come as a surprise to almost no one who paid attention to the debate over its introduction. A host of organisations and campaign groups warned from the outset that the increase in fees would save the government no money, largely as a result of the large costs of upfront borrowing and the fact that so many students would never earn enough to pay back their debt. Read more...

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30 mars 2014

If education is for life, perhaps repaying tuition fees could be, too

It matters not a jot for those of us who were against the imposition of student fees to say "we told you so" now that there needs to be a change to the system of repayments (Government got maths wrong over tuition fees, 22 March). Given that it is too late to go back to where we started from, a rethink is due. If you were to take as a broad proposition that education is for life, perhaps a lifetime repayment scheme would be possible? A graduate could choose when to repay. Read more...

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29 mars 2014

Supporting public accountability: Presenting income and expenditure information to current students

1. We are writing to you regarding work HEFCE has undertaken at the Government’s request with the British Universities Finance Directors Group (BUFDG), GuildHE, the National Union of Students (NUS) and Universities UK (UUK) to explore the presentation of information on institutional income and expenditure (including tuition fee income). This work aims to support higher education providers in meeting the Government’s accountability expectations, in a way that is mindful of competition between institutions and seeks to minimise additional administrative burden on universities.
2. HEFCE has commissioned desk-based and survey research to establish the current provision of and demand for this information. More...

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23 mars 2014

Bientôt un vrai débat sur les droits de scolarité ?

Blog Headway - Olivier Rollot.

Comparons les classements de l’Etudiant et du Figaro pour tenter de comprendre ce qui les sépare. À cet effet j’ai la semaine dernière – vous avez d’ailleurs été très nombreux à venir le consulter sur notre blog – compilé les trois grands critères de l’Etudiant (excellence internationale, excellence académique et proximité de l’entreprise) afin de créer un véritable classement tel que l’Etudiant en publiait auparavant - See more at: http://www.headway-advisory.com/blog/les-classements-en-question-letudiant-face-au-figaro/#sthash.XkHxxshw.dpuf

En laissant les écoles des Mines et des Télécoms dont il a la tutelle doubler leurs droits de scolarité, le ministre du Redressement productif Arnaud Montebourg a laissé s’ouvrir un débat qu’on imaginait mal un ministre ancré à gauche comme lui porter. Mais il est vrai qu’en la matière les lignes de fractures politiques ne recouvrent pas une simple fracture gauche / droite. Pendant la dernière campagne présidentielle le think tank proche du PS Terra Nova a pu être favorable à une augmentation modérée des frais de scolarité au motif qu’aujourd’hui « les pauvres payent pour les riches » alors que le ministre de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche de l’époque, Laurent Wauquiez s’y opposait formellement. Suite...

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23 mars 2014

Tuition fees: teetering on the brink

Editorial. New official forecasts suggest that write-off costs have reached 45% of the £10bn paid out in student loans each year. It is generally assumed that when Nick Clegg dies, or if his Liberal Democrats suffer a comparable fate at the May 2015 election, the words "tuition fees" will be found engraved on his heart. But now it seems he won't be alone. On the latest calculations, the whole system of student funding introduced by the coalition four years ago – when the maximum permissible university tuition fee was hoicked up from £3,000 to £9,000 – is in serious trouble. In essence, the system in England requires graduates, once they're earning £21,000 a year, to repay their fees over a 30-year period. Read more...

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23 mars 2014

U. of North Texas Offers Fixed-Rate Tuition, With a Twist

By Eric Kelderman. Many colleges have fixed-rate tuition plans that lock in a student’s course costs for four years. In Texas that kind of policy is now a requirement for public colleges and universities. But not all undergraduate students graduate in four years, adding to the time and cost it takes to earn a degree. The University of North Texas has come up with a plan that offers both fixed-rate tuition and an incentive for students to finish their degrees on time. Read more...

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23 mars 2014

Will tuition be free for community colleges?

By Kathy Fuller. A bill signed into law Tuesday at Portland Community College’s Rock Creek campus by Gov. John Kitzhaber could have far-reaching effects for a number of Oregon students, for community colleges around the state and for businesses looking to hire skilled workers.
Senate Bill 1524 directs the state Higher Education Coordinating Commission — an advisory group to the Oregon Education Investment Board, the Legislature and the governor — to look at the viability of making community college free to students who graduate from high school. More...

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