By Andrew Kreighbaum. A Congressional Budget Office score released Tuesday for House Republicans' update to the Higher Education Act finds the bill would reduce federal direct spending by $14.6 billion over 10 years, primarily because of changes to student loan programs. More...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Using Bureau of Labor Statistics earnings estimates as an alternative to actual earnings data for gainful-employment programs would seriously mislead prospective students about the value of those programs, according to a report released today by New America. More...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Senate Democrats last week issued a set of principles they say should guide the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, among them: college affordability, access for low-income students, safety on campuses and accountability for institutions. More...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. U.S. report shows undergraduate borrowing was down in 2015-16 from four years earlier, across nearly all types of institutions. Meanwhile, the proportion of students receiving grant funding rose. More...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. A. Wayne Johnson will step down as chief operating officer of the Office of Federal Student Aid after just seven months on the job. But the Department of Education insists the change in leadership doesn't signal a wavering commitment to ambitious projects -- including a mobile app and prepaid card for federal student aid accounts and a restructuring of federal loan servicing contracts. More...
By Mariam Yevdokimova. On 29 November 2017, the President of the Republic of Armenia signed the new law on ‘military duty and military service’, which states that to get a military draft deferment, all male students must sign contracts with the Armenian ministry of defence and must agree to serve in the military for three years after completing their undergraduate studies. More...By Stephen Coan. The Africa Evidence Network at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, recently launched the first annual Africa Evidence Leadership Award to honour and recognise those who have increased awareness of evidence-informed decision-making in Africa. More...By Frances Tsakonas. The university model has been stuck in limbo for centuries. Little has changed in terms of the university framework since the first university in the Western world, the University of Bologna, opened its doors in 1088, let alone the first continuously-operating degree-granting universities of Al-Karaouine in Morocco (859 AD), Al-Azhar in Egypt (970-972 AD) and Nizamiyya in Iraq (1065). More...By Eric Fredua-Kwarteng and Samuel Kwaku Ofosu. For the past 20 years or so African higher education institutions have been experiencing explosive enrolment growth rates while funding has drastically declined. The statistics are staggering. For instance, according to the literature, from 1999 to 2012 enrolment shot up by 170%; that is, from 3.5 million students to 9.54 million students. Explosive university enrolment is a continent-wide phenomenon. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
