International
N-led centre, provincial govts slash education budget: Report | Federal and the two provincial governments, where Pakistan Muslim league-Nawaz (PML-N) is in power, decreased budget for education sector for the year 2016-2017 compared to the previous year, suggests a report.
A new dawn for Asian higher education regionalisation? | Composed of 15 key universities from different Asian countries covering all the Asian regions, the AUA can be considered the most ambitious Asian higher education initiative to date.
Universities have become isolated from their publics | Today, as the distribution of economic activity and scientific collaboration has become increasingly international, higher education has been transformed from a local institution into a global actor. It sits at the fulcrum of the geopolitical struggle for a greater share of the global market and the new world-order, facilitating increasing concentrations of wealth and resources and greater hierarchical differentiation and social stratification.
At the vanguard of an HE privatisation wave? | Since the 1970s, Brazilian policy-makers have relied on the private sector to meet the burgeoning demand for higher education, facilitating institutional authorisation and offering attractive fiscal incentives.
Densil Williams | Wrong narrative on affordability | There is no doubt that if our society is to achieve any meaning level of development over the next decade, we will have to increase access to university education. In this Western Hemisphere, the Caribbean has one of the lowest levels of participation in tertiary education.
U.S. National
Push for ‘Unit Records’ Revived | A bipartisan group of senators Monday introduced legislation to overturn a ban on a federal data system that would track employment and graduation outcomes of college students. The ban written into the 2008 reauthorization of the Higher Education Act has meant that while colleges report data at the institutional level, efforts to evaluate outcomes at a more targeted level have been stymied.
U.S. States
Betting on AJR5 | This legislative session, Assemblyman Elliot Anderson and state Sen. Joyce Woodhouse are co-sponsoring Assembly Joint Resolution 5, which proposes to amend the Nevada Constitution by removing a reference to the University Board of Regents from the Nevada Constitution.
Institutional
Discounting Keeps Climbing | Tuition discounting at private colleges and universities is up again. Tuition revenue is straining to keep up. And enrollment is weak.
Trouble From the Grave | Burlington College closed last year, but controversy still swirls over reports of a federal investigation into land deal by a former president, Jane Sanders, wife of Bernie — an investigation allegedly sparked by a prominent Republican.