...to be first in the world regarding the importance of obtaining a higher education for a better workforce of the nation. The rapid increase in globalization of the 21st century has completely changed the course of the world allowing a vast open playing field and competition from every direction. Foreign students have gained access to the American workplace due to outsourcing and breached the job market for American workers who lack the necessary skillset and education qualifications. While the worldly competition in education has drastically increased, President Obama has addressed a goal for the nation by 2020-for America to be top in the highest proportion of college graduates of the world. One of the greatest challenges that plays as an obstacle for this goal is the problematic college access. On the contrary, Germany has found that college education is not a necessity at all and has successfully maintain a low unemployment rate. However, the economy and government of the United States is structured very differently, and the framework of Obama’s plan proved that a stronger educated population is directly correlated with a stronger nation itself. History and Theoretical Framework For much of America’s history, a college education was not needed to make a decent living as the difference between the average wages of high school and college graduates was very minor. After WWII, however, the growth of education started to move in a forward direction as the demand for highly skilled...
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...Higher Education MGT521 Higher Education Society has changed in many ways. Education has become a significantly important factor in today’s society. More adults are going back to school seeking higher education for better job opportunities. Higher education is important because it can determine how far a person can advance in career opportunities. Getting a Master in Business Administration (MBA) degree is the best way to develop and learn about organizational and management skills. For someone that is pursuing managing a business or owning his or her own company, getting an MBA degree can contribute significantly. There are many job opportunities out there. Most companies are looking for someone that has the education; a bachelor’s degree is decent in today’s society, but an MBA is favorable in the job market. There are numerous reasons to seek an MBA: to improve written skills, communication, managing, organizational skills, financial stability, and more. As the first person in the family to graduate with a bachelor’s degree pursuance of an MBA is the golden path toward stability as well as a better tomorrow financially. The number of people seeking an MBA degree is growing day by day. In addition, several schools around the nation are promoting this type of degree as one of the top degrees. More people are going back to school due to the state of the economy. ” the beginning of the economic downturn people were leaving the job market and going back to...
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...MEMORANDUM TO: Governor Charlie Baker CC: Matthew H. Malone, Secretary of Education FROM: , Analyst of Sate Higher Education RE: Higher Education Funding for State Universities. Date: November 7, 2014 I. Introduction Higher education is crucial to economic prosperity; it serves as the essential final step for students advancing through our state education system. The skills of a state workforce have grown progressively more important over the last three decades, with increasing educational completion correlated strongly with higher wages. Additionally, a recent study from Georgetown University revealed that approximately 62 percent of jobs will require some form of college education by the year 2018 compared to the mere 28 percent in 1973.1 Nevertheless, regardless of the evidence that college and higher education are essential to our future, Massachusetts has eliminated hundreds of millions of dollars from public higher education funds in recent years. When state support for the university and community college systems is reduced the students in those universities are forced to pay higher tuition and fees. With increasing costs, the amount of money a student must take out in loans also rises. Public higher education funding has suffered numerous dramatic cuts over the past decade. State spending on higher education, including funding for the UMass system, Community Colleges as well as State Universities has declined 31 percent from 2001 to 2013. Although state...
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...HIGHER EDUCATION IN INDIA: ISSUES, CONCERNS AND NEW DIRECTIONS UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMISSION NEW DELHI December 2003 HIGHER EDUCATION IN INDIA ISSUES, CONCERNS AND NEW DIRECTIONS RECOMMENDATIONS OF UGC GOLDEN JUBILEE SEMINARS- 2003 HELD AT ELEVEN UNIVERSITIES IN INDIA UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMISSION, NEW DELHI December 2003 (i) © 2003, The University Grants Commission Editorial Committee (Names of members, preferably in alphabetical order to be given) Printed and published by the Secretary, UGC For the University Grants Commission, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi 110 002, India; Printed at……………………… (ii) Foreword The higher education system in India has grown in a remarkable way, particularly in the post-independence period, to become one of the largest system of its kind in the world. However, the system has many issues of concern at present, like financing and management including access, equity and relevance, reorientation of programmes by laying emphasis on health consciousness, values and ethics and quality of higher education together with the assessment of institutions and their accreditation. These issues are important for the country, as it is now engaged in the use of higher education as a powerful tool to build a knowledge-based information society of the 21st Century. Recognizing the above and the basic fact, that the Universities have to perform multiple roles, like creating new knowledge, acquiring new capabilities and producing an intelligent human resource...
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...Management in Education http://mie.sagepub.com/ Reconfiguring the higher education value chain Virendra Pathak and Kavita Pathak Management in Education 2010 24: 166 DOI: 10.1177/0892020610376791 The online version of this article can be found at: http://mie.sagepub.com/content/24/4/166 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: British Educational Leadership, Management & Administration Society Additional services and information for Management in Education can be found at: Email Alerts: http://mie.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://mie.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Citations: http://mie.sagepub.com/content/24/4/166.refs.html >> Version of Record - Oct 6, 2010 What is This? Downloaded from mie.sagepub.com at Excelsior College on March 19, 2014 MiE Reconfiguring the higher education value chain Management in Education 24(4) 166–171 ª 2010 British Educational Leadership, Management & Administration Society (BELMAS) Reprints and permission: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0892020610376791 mie.sagepub.com Virendra Pathak Kavita Pathak Abstract Forces of demand and supply are changing the dynamics of the higher education market. Transformation of institutions of higher learning into competitive enterprise is underway. Higher education institutions are seemingly under intense ...
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...HIGHER EDUCATION It is inevitable that higher education is extremely valuable for individuals as they provide life time skills and qualities to being successful in life. It is the most essential investment a country can make in its people and its future development and growth. Higher education considered to be beneficial as it shapes the students future and career and provide them better work and open new opportunities for them to enlighten their future. However, in my views, it is not enough to get higher education, we also need to ensure that we are learning to make our future bright and to lead productive lives. It is important than ever to have a college education as it is related to various factors that contribute success in our life. Many people value higher education for monetary reasons, they believe higher education will allow them to find lucrative careers that have high salaries and many opportunities. Moreover, it also teaches us how to deal with a variety of other real-life situations by improving our problems solving skills and ability to communicate with other people to maintain personal relationships. The other important factor of higher education is that it helps us to interact better in a group which may benefit our career later on as it is an essential aspect of any type of work environment. It is my belief that the primary purpose of higher education is and should be the creation of prepared minds. The investment of government in higher education including...
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...Chronicle of Higher Education Pondering Higher-Education Accountability July 2, 2009, 5:59 pm By Kevin Carey Let’s say you’re a governor or a legislator or a member of Congress or you run a large charitable foundation or you’re just generally interested in American higher education, and you have some kind of agenda or goal you want to pursue. Maybe you’re concerned about access for low-income students. Maybe you want graduation rates to be higher. Maybe you wish more people were getting degrees in math and science. Or something else entirely. Whatever it is, you wish things were different, that colleges and universities would collectively be more focused and diligent and effective at pursuing whatever goal you care about most. What should you do? You could write a manifesto or letter to the editor generally exhorting the higher education sector to improve. “This is important!” you would say. “Our future depends on it!” But I think you’d be disappointed. Things are the way they are for a reason. Simple appeals to the better angels of our nature flatter the appealer, but they tend not to change the world all by themselves. Alternatively, you could be heavy-handed and pursue an aggressive regulatory strategy. If colleges aren’t doing something you want them to do, or are doing something you don’t want them to do, work the political process and pass a law to make them change, whether they like it or not. This path will also disappoint, I think. First because it’s hard to accomplish...
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...CHAPTER TWELVE FUNDING HIGHER EDUCATION IN NIGERIA: CRUCIAL ISSUES A. O. O. OGUNTOYE,Pk.D Introduction Education is the fastest growing social sector of the Nigerian economy, at least, in quantitative terms. Education grew slowly but steadily during the colonial era but there was a dramatic leap forward in enrolment in the 1970s after the windfall from an oil wealth that came in form of sale of oil, oil royalties and taxes on oil. Both the wealth and the expansion in enrolment were unprecedented 'in the annals of the country. The boom, which lasted for a few years, because of its nature and the kind of people that managed it, spelt doom for education. This chapter briefly examines past trends in enrolments and educational financing with a view to assessing present predicaments and future possibilities. There has been a monolithic supplier of funds to education - the government. This source, which is now over-burdened and overwhelmed, cries out for relief, which cannot come in easy because it involves hard political choices with attendant costs, moreso, because it is easier to destroy by a stroke of the pen in the 1970s when the fever of school take-over and free education spread like wild-fires. Demand and Supply of Education in Nigeria The demand and supply of education follow a linear relationship that keeps on expanding in response to the average growth in population of more than 2.5% annually. Nigerians having tasted education become insatiable, moreso, because of the profound...
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...is “Market In The Higher Education In India” . The main objective of this term paper is to critically evaluate the presence of private sector in market of higher education in India. The structure of paper starts with first , explanation of higher education as public or private good debate . various authors views are used while discussing the nature of product the higher education . Second, the importance and increasing presence of private sector in higher education is explained. Third, the form of market structure in higher education from the perspective of the student, as well as the perspective of the providers of higher education Traditionally , higher education is regarded as a public good, benefiting not only the individuals but also the whole society by producing a wide variety of externalities or social benefits. In recent times, however, the chronic shortage of public funds for higher education, the widespread introduction of neo-liberal economic policies and globalization in every country and in every sector, and the growing presence and importance of the international law on trade in services by the World Trade Organization and the General Agreement on Trade and Services—has led to change in view of many that higher education is a public good, and introduce the concept of market by the sale and purchase of higher education, as if it is a normal commodity meant for trade. The very shift in perception on the nature of higher education from a public good to...
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...Higher Education Affordability Brandon DeLoose Baker College Higher Education Affordability Earning a higher education yields a much larger total salary throughout life than those with a high school diploma or equivalent. However the cost of college has been increasing at a pretty ludicrous rate in the past thirty years in the United States. How are students to afford these ever skyrocketing costs to earn degrees and have the possibility of a more successful life? This problem begins in the history of higher education, therein are the causes that made the price inflate. This increase in cost makes it very difficult for people of low income to attain a degree of higher education. This in turn can have a lasting effect on the economy. Understanding all of this leads to two solutions. First, the government must take action to make this education more affordable, on way they might do this is by reducing their defense spending. Second, the people themselves can take steps to make higher education more affordable for themselves if they are in a situation where higher education is not very affordable to them. First we must first look at the history of higher education in the U.S. and the things going on around it at certain times that had some effects on it. Higher Education in the U.S. really began in the colonial era. The first colleges were set up by religious groups to train ministers. These colleges were modeled after colleges like Cambridge and Oxford in England. Harvard...
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...Education plays a significant part of our livelihood. With the way how the world is advancing a higher education is a requirement. For example, working in the field of computer information technology one may seek a degree in Computer Science or a related subject. Without a higher education one may have some difficulties with being promoted within a company or being able to go forth in life as far as providing for their family. One may apply to college for various reasons, but the purpose of higher education is for a higher earning job, for self-improvement, and being a role model. Having a college degree one is likely able to obtain a high salary occupation. For example, the Virginia data reveal graduates from University of Richmond’s business administration program earned between $2,500 and $19,000 more than graduates in the same program from other universities in the state. Even more surprising, graduates of occupational/technical associate degree programs, with an average salary of just under $40,000, out-earned not only non-occupational associate degree graduates by about $6,000, but also bachelor’s degree graduates by almost $2,500 statewide. The report form Tennessee found that for nine of the state’s four-year public campuses, the average wage for graduates with a bachelor’s degree is $37,567. For graduates of the 13 community colleges, the average wage is $38,948, more than $1,300 higher than graduates at a four-year institutions Having a higher education...
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...English 102 Jeremy Branstad December 3, 2011 Higher Education Education plays a major role in our society. We look to education for everything. Many individuals feel that there are different purposes for education. Some believe educations sole purpose is so we can learn. Others believe it’s so we can better ourselves financially. While others believe education is to help us develop discipline and power. Education is what makes the individual. In my opinion, education is what helps us get somewhere in our lives. There are many members in our society who believe that the whole purpose of higher education is so that we could be knowledgeable and be able to make the right choices in life, when it comes down to it. Some of us forget how crucial education is to our growth as individuals. One example of this would be Fredrick Douglas. He was born into slavery and had little options. He however, had been taught at an early age to read, unlike some other slaves. Fredrick Douglas once said, “I would at times feel that learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing. It had given me a view of my wretched condition without a remedy. It opened my eyes to the horrible pit, but to no ladder upon which to get out (97). In this passage Fredrick Douglas seems to have given all hope. Even through all depression he continued to read and better himself. He strived to find even more information, and be knowledgeable even if the knowledge/facts hurt. By teaching himself the basics...
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...The most widely recognised benefit from individuals completing a Higher Education is the ability to earn a higher income. Typically higher incomes will be taxed at a higher level benefiting the wider community by improved programs and services. Not only do individuals gain from a higher education, it has far reaching effects on the larger community. Individuals with a higher education level generally do not rely on government programs, are less likely to be incarcerated, are more likely to be engaged in community activities, less likely to have poor health and generally engage more with their children in their education. By completing a higher education it creates a cascade effect within society leading to further increasing the outcome of each benefit that it may bring to the general community. “Bynner and colleagues believed that ‘Graduates not only contribute to the economy but to the cohesiveness of society and demonstrate the attributes of active citizenship’” (WEEK 9READING). The broader benefits generated by individuals obtaining a higher education are relatively easy to exhibit. * Individuals with a higher education are likely to have careers that provide or enable them to purchase private health insurance and retirement/superannuation benefits than those individuals without further education. Thus with improved preventative health care they tend to live longer healthier lives without needing to access any government funded healthcare or assistance. The average...
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...Quality Assessment in Higher Education with Special Focus on AUIB PART 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 ORIGIN OF THE STUDY This research project, which is entitled as “Quality Assessment in Higher Education with Special Focus on AIUB” has been prepared to fulfill the requirement of the course RESEARCH METHODOLOGY under the Bachelors of Business Administration degree of American International University Bangladesh. The submission date of the report is 18th January 2003. 1.2 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY The objectives of this study are to: Give an idea about the higher education sector in Bangladesh, its quality and effectiveness. Discuss the rationale behind the emergence of private universities. Understand the establishments of AIUB in respect of its facilities, infrastructure and legal requirements. Know the human resource strength of AIUB. Discuss various aspects to analyze AIUB’s performance such as: campus area, no and qualification of faculty members, library space and book quantity, lab facilities, counseling opportunity for students, extra curricular activities, credit transfer facilities, research & publications, administrative service to students, tuition waiver, etc. Find out its growth level over the last years. This has been done in two ways: by calculating the number of new entrants over the last years and by calculating the rise in student intake. Obtain a comprehensive insight about the operating aspects of AIUB including strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats...
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...Essay 1 Draft 2 The artifact I chose to write about is Montclair State University’s Business Administration Major; with the focus in Sports, Events and Tourism marketing. This major helps student expands their knowledge and social skills revolving around sports, events and tourism. In this essay you will see comparisons and direct quotes from Mark Edmundson, Michael S. Roth, and James Baldwin. I want to show the connection of how important it is to find what you love and how money should be a factor in your undergrad study but not the only factor because you’ll be doing whatever you major in for the rest of your life. The business school’s mission statement for the program; “The Sports, Events, and Tourism Marketing program provides students the knowledge and skill sets to be successful in the growing workforce of the sports, events, and tourism sector. This program incorporates marketing concepts along with management skills to provide students with a diversified and competitive edge.” I was able to talk to a student who was studying my artifact. I asked him, “ are you in your study for the money or because you actually love what you’re going to do for the rest of your life?” he replied, “ I do like what I’m going to do, but I know there is a lot of money involved.” After talking to a student who was enrolled in this major, left me with the question, “ Is college about finding what you love or making a lot of money?” In class we had discussed the characterization of students...
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