Corrupt Higher Education Due for Its Comeuppance

नौ कन्सल्टेन्सी सञ्चालक पक्राउ

काठमाडौँ । संयुक्त अरब इमिरेट्स (यूएई) का आधिकारिक मान्यता नपाएका कलेजमा नेपाली विद्यार्थीलाई अध्ययनका लागि पठाई ठगी गरेको आरोपमा प्रहरीले नौ जना कन्सल्टेन्सी सञ्चालकलाई पक्राउ गरेको छ। नेपाल प्रहरीको केन्द्रीय अनुसन्धान ब्युरो (सीआईबी) ले यूएईको उच्च शिक्षा मन्त्रालयअन्तर्गतको कमिसन फर एकेडेमिक एक्रिडिटेसन (CAA) बाट स्वीकृति नलिएका कलेजमा विद्यार्थी पठाई पछि फ्रान्स, अष्ट्रेलियालगायतका मुलुकका विश्वविद्यालयमा ‘क्रेडिट []

Pelajar antarabangsa hanya 8.9 % – KPT

PETALING JAYA: Kementerian Pendidikan Tinggi (KPT) me­nyangkal dakwaan kemasukan pelajar antarabangsa ke universiti awam (UA) mengurangkan peluang pelajar tempatan, sebaliknya menegaskan pengambilan kedua-dua kumpulan itu dilaksanakan menerusi saluran dan kuota yang berbeza. KPT berkata, dakwaan yang dibuat Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) Jitra, Dr. Haim Hilman Abdullah itu tidak menggambarkan realiti sebenar sistem pendidikan tinggi ... Read more The post Pelajar antarabangsa hanya 8.9 – KPT appeared first on Utusan Malaysia.

Labour raises alarm over alleged fresh plot to privatise Unity Schools

By Victor Ahiuma-Young ABUJA — The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has raised the alarm over what it described as renewed moves to privatise Federal Government Colleges, popularly known as Unity Schools, warning that such a policy would make quality secondary education inaccessible to millions of Nigerian children and undermine one of [] The post Labour raises alarm over alleged fresh plot to privatise Unity Schools appeared first on Vanguard News.

Education Department cuts loan eligibility for college degree programs yielding 'low-earning' jobs

The Education Department has approved a plan to cut federal loans to college programs that result in low-earning jobs – a move the Trump administration sees as an opportunity to rein in runaway borrowing, while critics argue it is a blow to students seeking degrees in such fields as music, public service and religious studies. The department announced the so-called rule Monday for its new Student Tuition and Transparency System and Earnings Accountability initiative – after saying in April, when the rule-drafting process started, that the federal student loan portfolio was approaching 1.7 trillion as more students are left financially worse off than if they had never attended college....

Column: Teacher pension problems continue to get bigger – Champaign News-Gazette

“When you hear framings like ‘schools are underfunded’ or ‘schools are overfunded,’ usually those are missing the point. It’s that a growing share of what we already spend never reaches students, and until that problem is directly confronted, even the largest tax increases will struggle to deliver on their stated promises,” write Joshua Rauh and Gregory Kearney of Stanford’s Hoover Institute.