The history of American higher education demonstrates that the quality of teaching and research is greatest when faculty are secure in their freedom to inquire, speak, teach and publish.
To attain similar effects, a school has to either lower tuition by 3.8 percent or increase the quality of its education by recruiting higher-quality faculty, who are paid 5 percent more than their average peers in the academic labor market.
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During the 1940s and 1950s, the federal government devoted substantial amounts of money to higher education, bolstering the quality of our research universities and opening access to millions of Americans who were the first in their families to receive this level of education.
Hefce said it would be a "dynamic new way of delivering high quality higher education to students via the internet".
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As Mr. Rosling visualizes, reduced child mortality is clearly related to lower birth rates, which allows greater focus upon each child, which in turn allows more children to get a higher education and enjoy a higher quality of life.
Countries also advocated the promotion of expanded access to quality higher education.
CORE's objective is to introduce advanced courseware from MIT and other top-ranked universities from around the world, by using the latest information technology, teaching methodologies, instructional content and other resources to enhance the quality of higher education within China.
They would abolish tuition fees for universities, which would mean either letting the quality of British higher education slide still further or raising the subsidy to mostly well-off students by increasing state funding.
Yesterday, over 100 leaders from across the country came to the White House to join Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano for a discussion about how to make our schools, institutions of higher education, and houses of worship safer through the creation of high-quality emergency management plans.
This includes working with the international community to keep education high on the list of global development priorities, monitoring progress on education goals, fostering partnerships between Member States, schools, higher education institutions and civil society and strengthening the capacity of countries to offer quality education.
The MOE is responsible for quality assurance of Chinese Higher Education.
Institutions of higher education have a huge stake in the quality and type of students they attract, as the composition of their student body is critical to their development and success.
Sure, we presume that Harvard is more prestigious than others, but it by no means necessarily follows that a Harvard undergraduate education is of a much higher quality than that provided elsewhere.
The answer is actually quite simple: consumers of higher education use prestige as the signal of higher quality because commonly accepted measures of actual student learning do not exist.
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For governments and universities in countries with weak higher education systems and severe shortages of quality faculty, the coming decade of industry restructuring in the U.S. and a small number of other advanced countries represents an unprecedented opportunity.
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Of relevance is the committee that drafted the Palestinian national Green paper on Science, Technology and Innovations (Higher Council of Vocational and Technical Education, Accreditation and Quality assurance Commission, and Quality improvement Fund).
Noting the paradox of high unemployment and skills shortages, South Africa's Minister for Higher Education and Training described initiatives to better align skills with needs, improve the quality of technical and vocational education and training and increase opportunities to do apprenticeships.
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.
"Gaining university title is long overdue and it helps to provide greater choice for students and for businesses, while enhancing the quality and diversity of the UK's higher education sector as a whole, " he added.
We will eventually see a resulting decline in the quality of what has been the best higher-education system in the world, as the people capable of designing a college curriculum and staffing it lose authority over the areas of their professional expertise.
But Paul Wellings, chair of the research-intensive 1994 Group of universities, emphasised the need for maintaining quality across a diverse higher education sector.
If the politicians would stop playing politics with higher education, and would create an environment in which quality of provision is the overriding determinant, the current problems would turn into their own solution.
In the global higher-education market, for example, Estonia boasts dozens of institutions (admittedly, of varying quality) offering competitively priced, multilingual courses.
In consequence a kind of undermining of the collegial quality and the cross-disciplinary quality and the liberal arts project in public higher education.
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The RAE is an independent assessment of the quality of research in UK universities and is carried out on behalf of the higher education funding bodies.
Mr Andrews is also expected to say he would prefer to focus on developing the "quality, range of provision, strength of research and the opportunities" for higher education establishments in Wales, rather than on its structure.
He says Charlotte is attractive because of its low residential real estate taxes, the ability to get a lot of home for the money, as well as quality-of-life issues, such as high standards of medical care and higher education.
It is why he insisted in the recent debt ceiling deal that Pell Grant funding be protected because those who deserve and qualify for quality higher education but are struggling to be able to pay for it because of their economic circumstances need the assistance that those Pell grants supply.
The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) exists to review the performance of universities and colleges of higher education.
Good quality, low-cost options for higher education abound (despite the rising price of private tuition), yet the children of poorly educated adults are less likely to make the necessary investment in education.
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