Sentences with phrase «higher education reform»

The campaign is one part of an ambitious higher education reform plan President Obama unveiled in August, which more controversially included a plan to issue ratings of colleges and universities based on affordability and student outcomes.

«What we need is true higher education reform,» said Minsky.

S. 2228 — Higher Education Reform and Opportunity Act [Sen. Mike Lee (R - UT)-RSB- would allow states to establish an alternative accreditation system, reduce the myriad student loan programs into one, create one repayment period for undergraduate loans and another for graduate loans, cap borrowing amounts, eliminate student loan forgiveness, and fine schools with poor student loan repayment rates.

On top of this, he cosponsored the Higher Education Reform and Opportunity Act of 2015; this would have had states develop their own education accreditation standards.

Senator Lee helped introduce several Higher Education Reform and Opportunity Acts.

Committed to finding options that are more affordable for students, Kasich has made higher education reform central to his ongoing reelection campaign.

Titled «Multiple Intelligence, Higher Education Reform, and Ethics,» this piece is part of an interview series profiling prominent personalities in psychology called The Eminents.

Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. says he has been asked to lead a presidential task force on higher education reform.

We've spent a lot of time and much ink over the past few years discussing the controversial «seven breakthrough solutions» to higher education reform, the UT Regent Wallace Hall investigations, the «invasion» of The University of Texas on the turf of the University of Houston, the competition among seven of our institutions to achieve national «Tier One» status, and related side shows, while ducking the real underlying issue.

«I hope other states are able to follow North Carolina's lead on higher education reform,» she said.

Hidden in the detail of the latest higher education reform package, there are talks of creating teaching - only universities.

Andrew Kelly, director of the Center on Higher Education Reform at the American Enterprise Institute, argues that the Obama plan will not address low rates of college readiness and student success but will strain public budgets and crowd out innovation.

As director of the Center for Education Policy, Lindsey Burke oversees the Heritage Foundation's research and policy on issues pertaining to preschool, K - 12, and higher education reform.

When it comes to education, president - elect Donald Trump divulged few details regarding his plans for K - 12 and higher education reform.

Competency - based education needs to earn external validation if it is to endure, pronounced a landmark paper from the Center on Higher Education Reform at the conservative - leaning American Enterprise Institute.

As I've said before, higher education reform increasingly feels like a rerun of the past two decades of K - 12 reform — only on a 15 year time delay.

Helping those poor students get across the finish line is absolutely a worthy item on the higher education reform to - do list.

In this edition of the EdCast, Kelly, resident scholar and director of the Center on Higher Education Reform at the American Enterprise Institute, shares insights into the future of higher education and explains how true reform can take place.

Andrew Kelly is the director of the Center on Higher Education Reform and a resident scholar in education policy studies at American Enterprise Institute.

Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) is AAC&U's STEM higher education reform center dedicated to empowering STEM faculty, including those from underrepresented Periodically, I feel drawn to take time from my personal life to serve others.

Some polls investigate the issue du jour, such as a survey in February that highlighted opinions on higher education reform across the European Union.

His recommendations were included in a higher education reform law passed in May 2017.

«We have also made great strides in higher education reform to make college more affordable and accessible to all continuing their education at the highest level.

He iwas a a visiting professor at the Centre for Social Sciences (Tbilisi State University, Georgia) from 2010 to 2013, and has a strong interest in higher education reform in the former Soviet Union.

Senator Sampson is still working to resolve the outstanding budget issues, specifically an FMAP extension and higher education reform and plans to reconvene session once these final issues have been fairly addressed,» said Shafran.

That Msgr. Shea and his colleagues in Bismarck have welcomed him to the University of Mary, giving him a platform from which to extend his work into the Latino worlds of U.S. Catholicism while continuing to be the go - to consultant for Catholic Studies programs across the country, testifies to that young school's bright future as one of the leaders of Catholic higher education reform.

Catholics in the United States may soon know North Dakota as the cutting edge of Catholic higher education reform.

Professor Poole is one of a six - member committee appointed to review collaboration between Australia's public universities and publicly funded research agencies, as part of the Federal Government's higher education reform package.

The Federal Government's higher education reform package is still being analysed by universities nationwide, and the reforms are yet to be passed by parliament, but benefits and concerns have already been identified by the State's universities.

The reduction plans have not taken into account the higher education reforms which have doubled student loan repayments.

But his comments reflect a wider exasperation that few leading universities have so far used the Government's higher education reforms to grow.»

Continue reading «Ben Howlett: Conservative Future welcomes today's Higher Education reforms which will make universities more accountable and transparent»»

Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Dr David Zyngier, has called upon the new Education Minister to dump Christopher Pyne's proposed Higher Education reforms, replace religious chaplains in schools with well - trained and professional welfare officers, and to end the «culture war» over the National Curriculum by replacing education policy adviser Dr Kevin Donnelly.

The 50th anniversary of major student unrest was perhaps not the ideal moment to propose controversial higher education reforms.

The higher education reforms also propose a new Office for Students, to ensure value for money for students.

Jane S. Shaw, board chair of the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, praised North Carolina's higher education reforms in

NUS Vice President, Sorana Vieru, commented: «The government's higher education reforms threaten the future of our entire education system and risk shutting students out with exorbitant tuition fees.»

Not exact matches

While NABUCO, the trade group representing college and university business officers, is making the case that these tax reforms will hit students and employees of higher education, Skorina said it is going to be a tough fight.

The company cited the 2018 tax reform bill as motivation for the initiative and said that participants in their program can pursue «qualifying higher education or vocational training» that are outside the scope of their current responsibility.

This week, the House Education and Workforce Committee will mark up the Promoting Real Opportunity, Success, and Prosperity through Education Reform (PROSPER) Act, a comprehensive bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act (HEA).

Meanwhile, it would scale back or reform numerous other tax breaks and deductions, including the mortgage interest deduction, the business interest expense deduction, the property tax deduction, and higher education tax benefits.

The legislation would also reform higher education benefits ($ 65 billion) and repeal or reform a number of smaller tax breaks.

New policy decisions announced in the Budget included personal income tax cuts, increased spending on defence and domestic security, and reform of higher education and Medicare.

In a research report recently completed for the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, I document some startling findings: Canada, perhaps more than any other country, has played a pivotal role in the development of China's system of higher education since the beginning of China's period of Opening and Reform.

What Lee does have is a tax plan that would increase the take - home pay of working parents who are at (or just under) the median income and education reforms that would make it easier for workers to get the skills and credentials they need to get higher paying jobs.

Mintz concludes that the psychological cost to children has steadily grown more apparent, and he makes the familiar array of policy recommendations: more widely available health care, education reform, subsidized high - quality child care, family - friendly employment policies, a living wage, a limited work week and economic support to the impoverished.

I would like to vote Republican but my fear of closed minded bible thumpers who want to set back our education system, social reforms, free thought and our culture as a whole, outweighs my fear of skyrocketing national debt, slow economic growth and higher taxes (incidentally higher taxes are coming no matter who is in power.

This is also why «reforming education» is such a high priority.

This article is a scathing rebuttal of any assertion that reform is unneeded in higher education: there are numerous errors in punctuation (eg, «Latino's» for Latinos), capitalization, and especially syntax.

If we are serious about value reform in higher education, we must certainly reckon with this situation.