Putting the dream of a college education within the reach of working families.
Given a choice of providing nursing home care for poor senior citizens, keeping criminals off the street, or subsidizing the college education of relatively affluent middle class students, politicians are not about to favor the universities.
Interact is developed by the Christhchurch College of Education, New Zealand.
Lecturers from the School of Education in the Solomon Islands College of Higher Education were trained during this project to provide in-service teacher training for primary school teachers.
I'm sure most parents would wish their children an education at Harvard, but the vast majority of the college-educated in America receive their education outside of the Ivy League and they are the individuals most responsible for America's economic success.
Cambridge University has previously said reducing fees for island students would be discriminatory and Imperial College has said its decision had been based on the high cost of education at the college.
The Lone Star College system is the largest institution of higher education in the Houston area, and the fastest-growing community college system in Texas, according to its website.
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Indeed, I have argued the nation would be better off if the federal government got out of the business of financing college education (especially with money borrowed, often from foreigners).
The review of college governance by Professor Griggs recommended the creation of 12 college regional clusters and the education secretary said he would accept the professor's new structure almost in its entirety.
For example, the New College of the Humanities will offer a liberal arts education of the kind which will be familiar to American readers and is so lacking in Europe, where most generally students must pick a topic of study (often vocational) upon their leaving the secondary school system.
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Instruction would be for courses in the College of Business, Education, Health Professions, Liberal Arts or Sciences.
More and more students are relying on fellowships and scholarships to help defray the cost of college education these days.
Now, she is taking classes at the Bank Street College of Education and was offered a job at a private school.
Ask any family with post-secondary students and they will tell you just how outrageous are the costs of college education today.
Perhaps more significantly, 77% are expected to take part-time or summer jobs while at high school, and 81% to contribute to the cost of college education by working part-time.
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And that is wrong, because we cannot afford to price the middle class and folks who aspire to go into the middle class, we can't price them out of the college education market.
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The increasing cost of a college education has tightened the ties that bind.
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"When you are looking at your final options, you want to set aside, for the time being, the emotional content and analyze things rationally, " says Anne Sturtevant, executive director of higher education at the College Board, provider of the SAT and Advanced Placement Program.
The general secretary of the University and College Union, Sally Hunt, said the introduction of a higher education market was "a recipe for disaster".
Just 10 years ago the cost of a four-year public college education amounted to 18% of the annual income of middle-income families.
The audit office made its recommendations in the wake of a report on the financial management of Fermanagh College of Further and Higher Education.
This suggests that the value of a college education has little to do with learning.
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To help AAPIs finish college, the Department of Education is strengthening its Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs) program.
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And through that process, you've got millions of people all across the country who are able to actually go back to school without incurring the huge debt loads that they had in the past -- although, obviously, the cost of a college education is still really high.
The new GI bill that will, starting this week, provide Iraq and Afghan war veterans tuition support at American universities will go some way towards rectifying both these problems, by ensuring that vets are represented in larger numbers in our academic institutions and by covering much of the costs of a college education.
As Jayson Boyers argues over at the Huffington Post, competency-based education omits the social and relationship-based aspects of a college education, which often yield as much career benefit as classroom knowledge to those just entering the workforce.
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The spark, though, came from Li Guanlu, president of the Yunnan Education College in Kunming.
While California is facing the largest cuts to education, similar cuts are happening all over the country, making it harder for students to afford college and lowering the quality of the education they receive.
Over 40% of the foreign-born adults in the United States have at least some college education, thereby making that country the epicenter of the global talent drain.
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