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Higher Education Bill -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) The Higher Education Bill is a (A piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)) bill currently being reviewed by the (The lower house of the British parliament) British House of Commons. It includes several changes to the (Education provided by a college or university) higher education system, but the most important and controversial is a major change to the funding of (additional info and facts about universities) universities, and the operation of (A fee paid for instruction (especially for higher education)) tuition fees. The Bill is currently undergoing its (additional info and facts about third reading) third reading in the (The lower house of the British parliament) House of Commons, and will then have to be passed by the (The upper house of the British parliament) House of Lords before it can become the Higher Education Act 2004. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hi/higher_education_bill.htm   (1746 words)

Higher Education Bill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Higher Education Act 2004 is a British Act of Parliament which introduced several changes to the higher education system, the most important and controversial being a major change to the funding of universities, and the operation of tuition fees. Therefore, it is quite possible that the Lords will reject the bill outright, which would mean the government would have to table the Bill again in the next session of Parliament, and possibly have to use the Parliament Act in order to force it through Parliament, so it can gain Royal Assent. The Bill incorporates several key changes to the financial arrangements of higher education students, including many additional terms that were added to convince those who opposed earlier drafts. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Higher_Education_Bill   (1697 words)

Higher Education Bill "Long List"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Directs the State Council of Higher Education to facilitate the development of articulation agreements between two- and four-year public and private institutions of higher education in Virginia and requires the Council to develop estimates of the number of degrees to be awarded by each institution and include those estimates in its reports of enrollment projections. Articulation agreements are agreements between two-year and four-year institutions of higher education or between K-12 schools and two-year institutions of higher education that detail the transferability of courses and credits between two-year and four-year institutions of higher education or between high schools and two-year institutions of higher education. To require that each institution of higher education formed, chartered, or established in the Commonwealth after July 1, 1980, shall ensure the preservation of student transcripts in the event of institutional closure or revocation of approval to operate in the Commonwealth of Virginia. www.schev.edu /Policymakers/leg_display.asp?bill=SB338   (1674 words)

The Role of Aging in Adult Learning: Implications for Instructors in Higher Education While that may be a common convention among educational theorists, there are various definitions in use and this manuscript will refer to the adult learner as (at a minimum) having finished mandatory schooling in addition to having gained experience in the work force prior to engaging in additional education. Educators prone to using a cookie cutter approach to teaching may find student dissatisfaction with the instructional efforts that result in few rewards and less professional satisfaction for the instructor and student. As educators, the challenge may be to understand the various student interests and develop methodology and assessment techniques that allow for flexibility yet adheres to the constructs of the course content. www.newhorizons.org /lifelong/higher_ed/crawford.htm   (3950 words)

AUT - The Higher Education Bill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) The bill turns the existing Arts and Humanities Research Board in to a UK-wide research council, to be established by Royal Charter, equivalent to the existing research councils. The bill allows for the establishment of a student complaints body for all higher education institutions (HEIs) in England and Wales. For example, the bill allows for both a standard fee and a higher fee but it is left to the secretary of state to specify what the levels of these should be. www.aut.org.uk /index.cfm?articleid=781   (600 words)

AFT - AFT Higher Education - News - 2004 - June - Union Objects to For-Profit Slant of House Higher Education Bill The AFT has strongly objected to provisions of a proposed higher education bill that the union says are skewed toward for-profit institutions. H.R. 4283, the College Access and Opportunity Act of 2004, "promotes the financial interests of the for-profit higher education industry at the expense of the needs of students," said AFT legislative director Charlotte Fraas in a June 16 letter to members of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. This would make all higher education institutions, including for-profit institutions, eligible for Title IV programs that provide institutional aid to public and private nonprofit colleges and universities serving large numbers of minority and other nontraditional students. www.aft.org /higher_ed/news/2004/househigheredbill.htm   (428 words)

The Hon Dr Brendan Nelson MP - Media Centre To recognise that policy, particularly in higher education—from which much of Australia’s economic and social development will be driven, certainly for the first quarter of this century—we will need to adapt to economic and social changes in Australia that see this country moving from agrarian, land and labour intensive industries increasingly into services based industries. The government is also determined—in the words of Dean Mary Kalantzis, the President of the Australian Council of Deans of Education—to ‘bring students from the periphery to the centre of the higher education experience’. In this bill, the government is introducing measures that will see much greater emphasis placed on quality of teaching and learning in higher education. www.dest.gov.au /ministers/nelson/sept03/speech_170903.htm   (3293 words)

South Africa's Higher Education Bill These powers would include the power to establish higher education institutions; determine whether any institution should be a university, technikon or college; close down an institution or enforce total or partial mergers; and withhold money to enforce compliance with conditions laid down. While the present Minister of Education and Director-General were well acquainted with higher education, there was no guarantee that this would always be the case, the memorandum said. SAUVCA believes it should be a stakeholder body, and not a Ministerial body, and that public institutions of higher education should have relatively stronger representation on the CHE, through their Principals or Vice-Chancellors, and that these institutions should be represented on the CHE's Executive Committee. web.uct.ac.za /depts/dpa/monpaper/97-no28/1st-lead.htm   (734 words)

Oxford Blueprint: 15 January 2004: HE Bill proposes variable fees from 2006 The Higher Education Bill, announced by the Secretary of State for Education last week, has proposed that universities should be able to charge variable fees from 2006. Unveiling the proposals the Rt Hon Charles Clarke MP said that the cornerstones of the Bill were that 'barriers to access to university need to be lowered', that universities were in need of 'more investment' and that there should be a move towards students being treated as 'financially independent from the age of 18'. The Vice-Chancellor, Sir Colin Lucas, said: 'The acknowledgement in the Higher Education Bill that radical steps need to be taken to preserve this country's universities should be applauded after years of underfuding across the sector. www.ox.ac.uk /blueprint/2003-04/1501/03.shtml   (453 words)

EducationGuardian.co.uk | Students | Lords debate higher education bill Speaking as the controversial higher education bill had its second reading in the Lords, after a turbulent passage through the Commons, she hailed it as a landmark. The introduction of tuition fees of up to £3,000 a year would begin to reverse the squeeze on higher education funding of the past two decades, which had seen the amount for each student slashed from nearly £8,000 in 1989 to just over £5,000, Baroness Warwick said. Increasing costs mean London's higher education institutions will have a difficult enough job persuading students to apply for places in the capital and London weighting must be added to the proposed higher education grant to get us anywhere near a level playing field". www.guardian.co.uk /Education/students/tuitionfees/story/0,12757,1195331,00.html   (729 words)

Arizona Daily Wildcat - Issue of the Week: The higher education bill - Wednesday, October 27, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) It is easier for those of a wealthy class to receive an education compared to those of a lower class, simply for the fact that those who have money do not have to worry about applying for financial aid, maintaining scholarships, and choosing schools with the lowest tuition. Education is not a right and, as such, taxpayers shouldn't be paying for someone else's education, whether at elementary, secondary, or post-secondary levels. Education should be a bigger priority than it is. However, the state and federal officials should make it their practice to prevent education crises, rather than provide remedy to a problem that should have been averted in the first place. wildcat.arizona.edu /papers/98/47/03_1.html   (1679 words)

DfES, News Centre Education and Skills Secretary Charles Clarke today welcomed the news that the Higher Education Bill has been given Royal Assent. The Higher Education Act will enable a key part of the Government’s strategy for Higher Education to be realised. Higher Education will now be free at the point of entrance and fair at the point of repayment, a fair and affordable option for students from all backgrounds.” www.dfes.gov.uk /pns/DisplayPN.cgi?pn_id=2004_0127   (1149 words)

Seanad Éireann - Volume 92 - 31 May, 1979 - An Bille um an Seachtú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Forais Árdoideachais do ... Wilson: The purpose of section 4 (3) of Article 18 is to remove any doubt that there might be that the mention of the name of a university in Article 18 should be interpreted as a guarantee that the university should not and could not be dissolved. Universities are mentioned as distinct from institutions of higher education in the State in subsection (2) and they are mentioned in the context of the franchise only. In subsection (3) “university” is mentioned specifically and to the exclusion of the institutions of higher education mentioned in the subsection before that. www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie /S/0092/S.0092.197905310004.html   (1170 words)

Higher Education Draft Bill - 24 July 1997   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) (3) Subject to the approval of the council of a public higher education institution the senate of such public higher education institution is responsible for the academic and research functions of the public higher education institution and performs such other functions as are delegated or assigned to it by the council. Every student at a public higher education institution is subject to such disciplinary measures and disciplinary procedures as determined by institutional statute made after consultation with the senate and the studentsÆ; representative council or councils of such institution. Any statutes or rules of public higher education institutions existing at the commencement of this Act continue to apply to the extent that such statutes or rules are consistent with this Act. www.polity.org.za /govdocs/bills/1997/high.html   (8432 words)

Boston.com / News / Education / Higher education / Senate Democrats unveil higher education bill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Senate Democrats proposed a new higher education bill Tuesday that would increase college aid, encourage universities to hold down costs and allow students to refinance higher interest college loans. The bill is being proposed by Kennedy, Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and other members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Kennedy said the bill would provide more federal money to states willing to invest in higher education, but states that cut education funding would be limited to their current levels of aid. www.boston.com /news/education/higher/articles/2003/10/28/senate_democrats_unveil_higher_education_bill   (463 words)

The Spoof - Higher Education Bill gets new look Education Secretary Charles Clarke announced yet another amendment to the bill, designed to appease the remaining, remaining rebels. Clarke was adamant that the new measures were part of a wider strategy to get more kids into university, “We are serious about this 50% target, and the only way we can achieve our goal is to get parents to force their kids through the system, paying off parents is the only of doing that. The incentive to enter higher education for the sake of education, has been eroded, obviously Tony wouldn’t have appreciated this during his time at Oxford, he like most rich kids only went far a laugh. www.thespoof.com /news/spoof.cfm?headline=s1i1854   (614 words)

BBC NEWS | Politics | Blair wins key top-up fees vote The Higher Education Bill was backed by 316 votes to 311 after days of intense campaigning by ministers and rebels. It means the bill has passed its first major hurdle but the plans will still be put to the test in further votes in the Commons and Lords as it goes through the parliamentary process. If the bill was defeated, he had argued that "universities will be stripped of the resources they need to address the challenges of the future". news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/3434329.stm   (735 words)

Higher education bill still under review in House - Minnesota Daily The renewal of the Higher Education Act would increase loan limits, change loan interest rates and some loan programs, while opening more programs to for-profit institutions to receive federal aid. The College Affordability and Access bill is one of many parts of the Higher Education bill, which needs to be reauthorized every five years. The current bill expires on Sept. 30, but if lawmakers do not reauthorize a new bill by that date, the current version of the bill will remain in effect. www.mndaily.com /articles/2004/07/06/9868   (740 words)

Tuition hikes likely under higher education bill The Legislature has approved a higher education bill that will probably mean further tuition hikes for students in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system, disappointed faculty union leaders said. One positive aspect of the bill is language that will allow MnSCU institutions to offer applied doctoral degrees in education, business, psychology, physical therapy, audiology and nursing. Education Minnesota is an affiliate of the National Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers and AFL-CIO. www.educationminnesota.org /index.cfm?PAGE_ID=13389   (445 words)

AFT - AFT Higher Education - News - 2004 - AFT Opposes House Higher Education Bill The bill addresses student loan provisions of the Higher Education Act, which Congress is working on reauthorizing this year. In a strongly worded letter sent May 11 to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, Charlotte Fraas, director of AFT's legislation department, details the AFT's concerns about the bill, which, she argues, "promotes the financial interests of the for-profit higher education industry at the expense of the needs of students." The bill would end borrowers' ability to consolidate their loans at a fixed rate, thereby increasing costs on people already burdened with large student loan debt. www.aft.org /higher_ed/news/2004/hr4283.htm   (376 words)

The Future of Higher Education: Acknowledgments My objective is to examine the ways a global virtual education system can come into existence, and to raise questions about needed research and more comprehensive planning on learning, teaching, and overcoming the problems (such as hunger, bad health, war, and revolution) that stand in the way of providing education for everyone in the world. This is especially true as educators seek to cope with crises that limit educational opportunity in the developing world, such as hunger, mental and physical health, poverty, warfare and revolution, and ecological problems. That we would employ a "bottom-up strategy" for lifetime education for all, whereby, for example, a neighborhood-empowering school could be the local center for lifetime education, connected to all needed resources, and operated by a community education cooperative. ecolecon.missouri.edu /globalresearch/chapters/U-ACKNOW.html   (3615 words)

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Turkish MPs back education bill The bill passed with the backing of 254 members of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), with four votes against, while opposition parties boycotted the vote. Mr Erdogan, educated at a state-funded religious vocational school, says the reforms are aimed at providing greater equality of opportunity. The bill is said to make it easier for graduates of religious schools to get university degrees other than in divinity studies, therefore opening the way for them to hold government jobs. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3710073.stm   (292 words)

Debate continues on higher education bill The higher education bill would alter funding, governance and the community college system for the next six years. The latest amendment made to the bill would allow Marshall, West Virginia State College and West Virginia University Institute of Technology to keep their community colleges for one year while a state appointed transition team evaluates how well the colleges are meeting the state's goals. Under the bill, institutions get their last year's budget, which is good if the institution is not growing or is losing enrollment, but if the institution is growing, it is bad news, Angel said. www.marshall.edu /parthenon/archives/20000307/news/debate.html   (549 words)

Higher Education Bill "Long List"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) HB 2047 Commonwealth of Virginia Higher Educational Institutions Bond Act of 2005. HB 2910 Higher education; prohibits admission of illegal aliens to any public institutions in State. SB 1251 Higher education; hiring and admission of military personnel. www.schev.edu /Policymakers/longlist.asp?from%3Dpolicymakers   (1174 words)

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