Backbiting in a backwater

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Australia's higher education system has been transformed over the past 30 years from 14 elite institutions with 69,000 students to 36 diverse and publicly-funded institutions with nearly 650,000 students. However not only have Australia's universities been subjected to countless reviews and assessments since 1988, but the conservative government of John Howard which came to power in Mar. 1996 has announced huge cuts in funding. The universities, which generate almost Aus$2 billion in overseas earnings from their distance learning operations, are vigorously opposing the cuts.

Australia, Schools, Federal aid to higher education, Government aid to higher education

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A rocky path for 'roll-over option'

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The alternatives to locally charged fees for higher education in the United Kingdom are to restore funding arrangements which were in existence twenty years ago, to set up an income-contingent loan repayment scheme for students or lastly to accept the proposed seven per cent funding cuts to deliberately accelerate the decline of the higher education system. The independent review which is currently taking place has put education firmly on the political agenda, and every attempt should be made to ensure that it is kept there.

United Kingdom, Education, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Expenditures, Public, Public expenditures

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Fertile fields of ideas

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Higher education research funding in the Netherlands is extremely limited, even though there is a great need for it at this time. This is because there is more fragmentation and insularity in the field, theoretical and applied subfields do not communicate very well and the level of external funding is very low. More cross-fertilisation is needed to communicate research findings and applications expertise across the global community of research groups.

Research, Netherlands

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