He also wants to increase the number of people going into higher education from 33% to 50%.
Even more-radical ideas also might see daylight, such as a federal takeover of higher education from the states or universal free higher education.
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Ministers and Vice-Ministers of Education and of Higher Education from all regions of the world will attend the Conference, along with international experts and representatives of the private sector.
If you listen to the pronouncements of public officials, people involved in education - university presidents, university executives - people in the not-for-profit sector, when they talk about higher education there is less and less reference - fewer and fewer references made to the public good that comes from higher education or comes from a populace a larger and larger proportion of whom have access to higher education.
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Meanwhile, the percentage of persons with complete higher education increased from 4.4% to 7.9%.
Only 15% of spending on higher education comes from public sources, compared to an OECD average of 69%.
Two-way satellite services were deployed over 18 SEE research and higher education institutions from the scientific fields recommended by the Ministerial Round Table held at UNESCO in 2001.
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During the chat, he addressed a wide variety of topics, including the role Income Based Repayment (IBR) plans can play in helping former students manage their debt, the importance of higher education, from four-year universities to community colleges and technical and vocational training, and the vital role of public education.
Research for the Sutton Trust found 77% of those aged 11 to 16 thought it likely they would go on to higher education, up from 72% in 2008.
Ministers and high level officials, experts of science, higher education and research from 11 South East European countries will participate: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Montenegro, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Serbia, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey.
The UNESCO-Microsoft Task Force on Higher Education and ICT will analyze the findings and recommendations of the WCHE, in addition to feedback from global higher education experts and stakeholders, to identify key initiatives that will promote more effective use of ICT in post-secondary teaching, learning and research.
In higher education males have gone from 61% of graduates to a projected 39% in 2019.
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Nor are Baha'is the only group excluded from higher education in Iran.
To support the diversification of the programme, please note that applications from higher education institutions with existing UNESCO Chairs or UNITWIN Networks will not be considered.
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But Mr Fraser said this approach would be "socially divisive" and mean that more young people would be deterred from higher education because of the expense.
Ten years after the first World Conference on Higher Education in 1998, participants at the 2009 Conference will reaffirm the role of higher education in meeting global challenges - from poverty eradication to sustainable development - while examining strategies to improve access, equity and quality.
The ACE is a coalition of 1, 800 higher-education institutions, ranging from Harvard to Honolulu Community College.
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Unfortunately, the Obama Adminstration is gravitating towards more cronyism in higher education, driving us further from market equilibrium.
Participants will be high-level members from the higher education community, ministries, local educational bodies, nongovernmental organizations, schools, and other EFA stakeholders.
In the past five years the rate of enrolment in higher education has taken off, from 7% to 13% of young Indians.
He was going to a meeting at the White House on the problem of access to higher education for boys and girls from the slums.
Calls for an independent review of institutional funding and student support came repeatedly from the Scottish Labour benches, particularly from its higher education spokesperson Claire Baker.
The data, from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa), showed overall student numbers at UK universities remained stable at just under two and a half million.
If, because a country spends more on higher education, university attendance rises from 20% to 22% of the 18-21 age group, will the economy grow faster as a result?
It led to a damning report from the higher education watchdog, the QAA, which found serious shortcomings in the way UoW approved other colleges to teach and design courses for its degrees.
Roughly 6% of black British students got a first class honours degree at UK universities in 2011-12, compared with nearly 19% of white British students, data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa) shows.
Falls in part-time students have also been seen in Scotland and to a lesser extent in Wales, while numbers in Northern Ireland have stayed broadly the same, according to earlier figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency.
The committee was gathering evidence as part of its inquiry into the next round of European Structural Funds, which Professor Phil Gummett from the higher education funding body HEFCW said was essential for funding academic research in Wales.
This UK report from the Higher Education Careers Service Unit (Hecsu) and Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services provides a detailed look at the paths taken six months after graduation - based on the cohort leaving university in 2011.
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