About 10 million borrowers in the government’s main student loan program are struggling to make their payments, yet unlike other types of debt, it’s next to impossible to have it forgiven.
Researchers found over a third of female graduate students and a fifth of male graduate students on the campus of a large public university had experienced sexual harassment.
Having made a commitment to reduce spending, the federal government will have its work cut out with this year’s budget, which may require revisiting policy ideas that have caused it pain in the past.
Tuesday’s budget will provide $153.6 million over five years to boost security arrangements for the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Crime Commission.
College education results in not just better earnings, but better health care and child development as well as political stability and lower criminal justice costs. Should states invest more?
Around the world, leading universities have established themselves as well-known brands. In France, we haven’t yet entered the race for global higher education.
Derek Yu, University of the Western Cape; Atoko Kasongo, University of the Western Cape, and Mariana Moses, University of the Western Cape
South Africa’s labour market suffers from high unemployment. Reform of the education system may provide the only long-term sustainable solution to the problem.
We need to think about education as an essential government responsibility requiring high levels of sustained investment over the long term, says Barney Glover.
With the higher education sector still in limbo about the government’s plans for it, Universities Australia is calling for certainty and warning of the damage done by the current vacuum.
Director of Centre for Postgraduate Studies, Rhodes University & Visiting Research Professor in Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, Rhodes University