International Minister looking for a revolution in accountability | A week after British Prime Minister Theresa May announced a year-long review of tertiary education, Sam Gyimah, the new universities minister, signalled that the government is committed to maintaining a funding system that relies on allowing universities to charge high tuitionContinue Reading
International Government seeks grand conversation on education reform | Universities New Zealand Executive Director Chris Whelan said for the country’s eight universities the most important issue continues to be that they are underfunded for the tuition they provide to students. New Zealand’s funding for universities lags behind the OECD average,Continue Reading
International Government will start phasing in free higher education in 2018, Cyril Ramaphosa says | President Cyril Ramaphosa has committed to phasing in fully subsidised free higher education and training for poor and working-class students starting in 2018. Lessons from Asia on road to world-class universities | The debate aroundContinue Reading
Aided by the largess of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Association for Institutional Research launched an initiative in 2014, “Improving & Transforming Institutional Research in Postsecondary Education.” Addressing the critical assessment of the profession in the report by the National Association of System Heads (NASH) (Part 8), theContinue Reading
International Higher education and the new doctrine of vocation | [A] detailed report published this month by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)…investigates “the relationship between the extent to which a subject is vocational and the employment outcomes of its graduates”. HEFCE, which draws on data released lastContinue Reading
