By Australia Associated Press - 12 September 2014 Nationals MPs are quietly lobbying Education Minister Christopher Pyne in a bid to ensure that regional universities get a fair deal under his higher education reforms, writes Katina Curtis for Australia Associated Press. The move comes as billionaire MP Clive Palmer wrote to the ...
12 September 2014 The Palmer United Party in Australia has vowed to do “everything possible” to block the Tony Abbott government’s higher education changes, pointing to the deregulation of fees and increases to student loan costs as elements it cannot support, writes Daniel Hurst for the Guardian. Education Minister Christopher Pyne has ...
By Karen MacGregor - 09 September 2014 Educational upward mobility has started to slow in the industrialised world, according to the OECD’s new Education at a Glance 2014 report. The share of people with lower qualifications than their parents is rising – even though higher education pays off more than ever ...
By Geoff Maslen - 09 September 2014 Profound changes have transformed the role of the ‘traditional’ academic in Australian universities, so much so that this once typical academic might soon be numbered among the nation’s endangered species. A ‘policy note’ released by the Group of Eight, or Go8, research-intensive universities this ...
By David Jobbins - 10 September 2014 An international study of postgraduate education has produced evidence of considerable challenges over a range of countries, from emerging economies to the most developed in North America and Europe. Research by University of Oxford academics, commissioned by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, reviewed ...
By Yojana Sharma - 12 September 2014 Asian economies can draw on the demographic advantages of a youthful population in some countries, a growing middle-class, an expanding services sector and creative industries to leapfrog more advanced countries and take the lead in the “knowledge-based economy of the future”, says a just-released ...
By Helen Obaje - 29 August 2014 Agents do a great deal to prepare international students for studying in the United Kingdom. The British Council’s Student Insight survey of 180,000 prospective international students shows that every year at least a third of the students surveyed say that will definitely use an ...
By Lance Lambert - September 5, 2014 One could be excused for thinking the value of a college degree is in a downward spiral. With overall student-loan debt topping $1-trillion and tuition racing upward, to college graduates facing high levels of underemployment and stagnating wages, it might appear college simply isn’t ...
By Andy Thomason - September 9, 2014 The New York Times’s hotly anticipated college ranking has one thing in common with the invitation-only conference at which it was unveiled on Monday night: It’s mostly private. The ranking—produced by the Times’s data-centric explainer unit, The Upshot—sorts roughly 100 colleges by the economic ...