Unlike undergraduate students, for which many universities offer comprehensive and inexpensive policies while attending their school full-time, most graduate programs do not offer broad scope health insurance plans, assuming that graduate students will be purchasing this on their own.

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The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals of the UK universities (CVCP) said it was itself undertaking a comprehensive study of the long-term funding options for higher education.

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It adds that as universities funding is likely to be cut further in the Comprehensive Spending Review, this would leave the government with a "severe headache about how to plug the gap in the meantime".

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Congress needs to champion this push with thoughtful, comprehensive and bipartisan legislation, Freed explained, but the American public, business leaders, universities, entrepreneurs, large companies and the financial sector have to act in tandem.

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"With events taking place throughout New Zealand and stretching across the Tasman for the first time - at early childhood centres, schools, universities, sports clubs, churches, government departments and even parliament - the week has been a comprehensive success, " says NZ National Commission for UNESCO chair, Bryan Gould.

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