For example, consider a tax credit for higher education costs, such as the existing American Opportunity Tax Credit (AOTC).
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Higher education costs have been rising more than twice as fast as inflation, faster than almost any purchase except health insurance.
However, if the U.S. keeps at it with low wages, an education system that focuses too heavily on liberal arts, and punitive higher education costs we should be on par with Brazil in a couple of generations.
The point that public education in California has become more expensive is well-taken, though, and it would be interesting to contrast its rate of increase with the rate of increase of higher education costs across the country and across public systems across the country.
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For Gates, Michael Dell, and other successful people held up as examples by a crowd turning against higher education and its higher costs, their success story was written before they even entered college.
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But taxpayers can't keep on subsidising higher and higher and higher costs for higher education.
According to data from The Chronicle of Higher Education, which tracks college costs, the 10 most expensive schools in the country, led by George Washington University in Washington, D.
The academic, who is on the executive of the umbrella body Universities UK, suggested that allowing the public purse to continue to pay the full costs of higher education was not sustainable unless the sector became a higher priority for funds.
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Strip out the costs of higher and further education, capital programmes and several other centrally-funded projects, and that fell to 6%.
Any official who's concerned about higher education in this country should address the skyrocketing costs, not demonize degrees they don't appreciate.
Yes, higher education administrators can and should do more to control costs, and reduce the growth in tuition.
His University of the People offers free higher education (not counting the few hundred dollars it costs to process applications and mark exams), pitching itself to poor people in America and the rest of the world.
To help make college more affordable, the first thing Congress can do is to pass a comprehensive reauthorization of the Higher Education Act that includes key reforms to address rising costs, protect student borrowers and improve critical programs.
Higher education has not delivered extra value to match the extra costs, he says.
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But innovation in energy, transportation, health care and education has suffered too much stasis because of higher capital costs and regulatory burdens.
But using prestige as the primary (if not sole) signal of educational quality can have a keenly perverse effect on higher education, particularly to the extent that prestige encourages escalating costs.
Further, limiting or eliminating inmate programs such as drug treatment and vocational education would, in fact, lead to higher costs to taxpayers and communities in the long run as the lack of such inmate re-entry training makes it less likely that released inmates will be successful at reintegration into society upon their release.
But today, skyrocketing costs price too many young people out of a higher education, or saddle them with unsustainable debt.
But today, skyrocketing costs price way too many young people out of a higher education, or saddle them with unsustainable debt.
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As many as 900 colleges are pushing students into using payment cards that carry hefty costs, according to the U.S. Public Interest Research Group Higher Education Fund.
That is despite the high rate of youth unemployment and the staggering costs of university, which might discourage young women from looking for a job or seeking higher education.
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