The ACE is a coalition of 1, 800 higher-education institutions, ranging from Harvard to Honolulu Community College.
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Alexander Astin, the dean of modern higher-education research, who is now an emeritus professor at U.C.
Some higher-education experts say the strategy could bring Sewanee accolades without actually costing it much money.
In America, for-profit universities such as Phoenix have already made inroads into the higher-education business.
It believes that the continent's higher-education institutions, the oldest in the world, are underrated.
The reasons for this lie in the structure of technical teaching in India's higher-education system.
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Higher-education institutions argue that they bring jobs, and add cultural and social value, making communities more livable.
They have run their own schools, clinics and higher-education system, and operated their own, largely unregulated, economy.
And as states' finances improve, the report said, they should strive to return higher-education funding to prerecession levels.
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Meanwhile, higher education minister Alan Johnson is expected to say taxpayers cannot be expected to pay the entire higher-education bill.
The higher-education industry faces a stark choice: either adapt to a rapidly changing world or face a future of cheeseparing.
Cisco is spending "millions of dollars" on the academy program, says Scott Knell, Cisco's higher-education marketing manager in Santa Clara, Calif.
In the global higher-education market, for example, Estonia boasts dozens of institutions (admittedly, of varying quality) offering competitively priced, multilingual courses.
Peter Thiel, a founder of PayPal, was one of the first to use the word "bubble" to describe the current higher-education market.
While American higher-education institutions are stronger than ever, it's becoming more difficult to bring foreign nationals to the U.S. and keep their bright minds here.
In the 1990s, China began pouring money into research at around 100 of its 1, 800-odd higher-education institutions, hoping to create an elite tier of universities.
This bodes ill for the wider, necessary, changes to a higher-education system that still needs a lot more than Mr Shuttleworth's goodwill to become world class.
Indeed, given that there are 170 higher-education institutions across Britain, there would seem to be scope for much rationalisation while still offering students plenty of choice.
Seventeen states are now considering cuts in everything from public-health services to higher-education funding in the next fiscal year, which for most states begins on July 1st.
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The great role model for higher-education-driven growth has been California.
Critics of Chile's higher-education system say that some universities connive at, or even encourage, this ignorance, using a high first-year intake to finance their thinly populated later years.
ACE, a higher-education industry group, has a network of about 2, 000 schools that consider granting credit for nonclassroom programs, such as military or corporate training, based on its recommendations.
Paul Lingenfelter, president of the higher-education association, noted that 31 states increased higher education funding in 2012-13, and a number have proposed an increase for the coming year as well.
It would be nice to conclude that, despite these anxieties, and given the somewhat contradictory goals that have been set for it, the American higher-education system is doing what Americans want it to do.
But now that they can no longer ride the coattails of the national averages which obscure the value of individual schools and make everyone look good higher-education leaders suddenly think salary is too narrow a measure.
But improving these tools has been slow going, largely because the higher-education lobby has fought federal efforts to create a "unit-record" system that could work across state lines to link students' educational and employment histories.
According to the Global Education Digest, a report published last year by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 69 out of 100 adults of college age are enrolled in higher-education programs in Europe and North America.
As it slowly attempts to smooth out the sharp edges of the deregulated higher-education system that it inherited from the government (1973-90) of General Augusto Pinochet, it has identified access to information as of central importance.
Colorado recently rejected a higher-education voucher system.
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