Recession's Impact on Post-secondary Education

Recession's impact on post-secondary educationGovernments could assist universities to survive the recession – and perhaps be in a position to thrive once the recovery arrives – by helping to pay for salary restructuring, not letting enrolment formulas constrain institutions from meeting shifting demand, allowing tuition to increase while protecting effective student aid programmes, and funding brains not buildings. This is according to a new report from Canada’s Educational Policy Institute, On the Brink: How the recession of 2009 will affect post-secondary education, which looks at “profound effects the recession will have on both revenues and expenditures in the post-school sector”.
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Source: University World News, Issue No: 0065 01 March 2009