Kenya’s university reforms are silent on government funding, which is the major source of their current financial challenges.
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Private higher education institutions in Ethiopia draw all their income from student tuition. This exposed the vulnerability of the sector when the crisis hit and students stopped paying their fees.
The assumption has always been that students would enjoy online learning but our research, during COVID-19 lock down, found otherwise.
Market forces don’t work well in education. For-profit businesses are more tempted to exploit loopholes than provide quality service.
The ‘free college’ proposals being floated by 2020 presidential candidates don’t include private colleges. A higher education scholar asks why, especially since privates have higher graduation rates.
Government funding in Nigeria’s education sector has been chronically low and needs to be changed.
Colleges and universities boast US$547 billion in endowment assets, yet only a handful of elite schools would be taxed under the proposal.
What does tuition-free college mean in other parts of the world? And what would it mean for international students?
Academics feel insecure, are overwhelmed by unmanageable workloads and burdened by bureaucracy. And things are only getting worse.
Presidential candidates such as Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have proposed a debt-free or a free college education. Is this feasible? Should wealthier students get such subsidies?
State support for public research universities declined by 28 percent between 2003 and 2013. So, why does it matter?
Universities are cutting and streamlining their courses in an attempt to make graduates more employable. But lots of graduates are still struggling to find work, so why isn’t it working?
Africa needs private universities. But far more must be done to make them powerhouses of knowledge, research and graduate output.
Guns will be allowed on public universities in Texas from August 1. Given the recent incident of a student shooting the professor and then himself, reportedly over grades, are there reasons to worry?
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