Deian Hopkin, its vice-chancellor, is a passionate advocate of higher education for all.
The Lib Dems, denouncing this heartless assault on the principle of free (ie, taxpayer-funded) higher education for all who can benefit from it, want the policy reversed.
The Equality Challenge Unit was set up in 2001 to support the higher education sector by improving equal opportunities for all who work or seek to work in the UK higher education sector.
In this context, the higher education has the expertise that could be used to attain quality education for all.
And to Dr. Jill Biden, thank you for being a symbol for all of the people in America for what higher education really means.
The tax-favored plans will make it all the easier for higher education to push through backbreaking tuition hikes.
While the Kliptown program doesn't have the resources to pay for all of its members' higher education, it does provide some financial assistance and helps members find ways to finance the rest.
The world is not on track to reach Education for All, and the stakes are higher with the global economic crisis.
The British government is cutting funding to higher education by 40% and wiping out teaching grants for all subjects except science and math.
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What this all means is that demand for higher education has never been greater in this country, and shows no signs of slowing down.
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One fast-growing grassroots organisation is Working America, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO which links union members and non-union workers to campaign for better jobs, higher standards in education and, above all, health-care reform. (Any progress on this front under the Obama administration will be claimed as a success by both AFL-CIO and the breakaway coalition led by Mr Stern.) Moreover, grassroots union activism in several swing states helped Mr Obama to victory.
If sieving were all that higher education achieved, there would be little reason for governments to subsidise it.
When we consider all the problems plaguing higher education, and as we look for solutions to those problems, we need to consider our customers.
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And four years ago, we started Race to the Top - a competition that convinced almost every state to develop smarter curricula and higher standards, all for about 1% of what we spend on education each year.
And four years ago, we started Race to the Top -- a competition that convinced almost every state to develop smarter curricula and higher standards, all for about 1 percent of what we spend on education each year.
So what does this all mean for the potential for a disruptive shakeout in higher education?
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Long-term default is all-but-impossible, as those issuing loans for higher education have the right to garnish everything from tax refunds to Social Security checks in their quest to be paid back.
When this happens, sticker prices will begin to fall, students of lesser financial means will begin to have more equal opportunity, and higher education all around, as well as individual institutions, will be the better and stronger for it.
Since the 1970s state courts around the country have cited clauses in their state constitutions that guarantee quality education for all students in public schools to try to equalize the spending in poor and higher-income districts.
But I think all of us have to figure out a way to make sure that higher education is accessible for everybody.
The policies pursued in recent years all involve clusters of excellence initiatives for investment in the future through the poles of research and higher education and The Campus Plan.
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