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Increases to College Financial Aid Coming – Will They Harm Or Help?
President Obama in his recently proposed budget is asking for substantial increases to college financial aid. This is not a surprise. There has been a lot of news coverage over the past several months about how student loans are harder to come by, how many loan companies have locked their doors, and how colleges endowments have taken a hit.
While the news coverage painted a picture of fund availability that was far more gloomy than reality; an increase in federal funds was virtually inevitable. Only social security is probably a greater hot button issue than helping students pay for college. So how will these changes affect students on the way to college and those already there? The answer is two-fold…
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Increases to College Financial Aid Coming – Will They Harm Or Help?
President Obama in his recently proposed budget is asking for substantial increases to college financial aid. This is not a surprise. There has been a lot of news coverage over the past several months about how student loans are harder to come by, how many loan companies have locked their doors, and how colleges endowments have taken a hit.
While the news coverage painted a picture of fund availability that was far more gloomy than reality; an increase in federal funds was virtually inevitable. Only social security is probably a greater hot button issue than helping students pay for college. So how will these changes affect students on the way to college and those already there? The answer is two-fold…
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Online Education in Developing Countries
What we see up-and-coming is a society of Open and Distance Learning Institutions with a strong association among themselves. Sometimes this collaboration involves the exchange of course materials, and some form of cross licensing and credit transfer. The delivery is becoming increasingly electronic, and we should now view these educational systems as information technology systems.
Will these developments serve the interests of developing countries? There is clearly much need for caution. We need to moderate the developments reported above with concerns for access to the education both in terms of the students’ own prior knowledge and cultural perspectives, and in terms of access to the technology through which to access the education. We also need to be concerned about the impact upon the local culture that may be matte by imported materials and the developed world’s culture that these embody.
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