Our plan will enforce the same Hecs [higher education contribution scheme] repayment obligations on Australians living overseas that apply to those who remain on our shores".
In Australia, the higher education contribution scheme (the fees that students pay back after graduation) has different pricing bands related partly to the costs of provision and partly to the financial returns the graduates subsequently secure.
Gov. George E. Pataki's aides contend that his administration has given $1.6 billion in new money to the city's Board of Education since the governor took office in 1995, while the city has raised its education contribution by only $1.1 billion in the same period.
And he said it was important for students to understand that the higher education contribution scheme (Hecs) was "here to stay", ensuring they could defer payment of all of their tuition fees until they were earning more than $50,000 in annual income.
Now much of his advertising emphasizes his support for higher education, including contributions to college funds out of his own pocket.
For some, no amount of American liberal-arts education, charitable contributions, or hours spent listening to NPR will ever wake them up to their own privileged, bigoted, and classist attitudes.
But his biggest step came when he started a parallel system for so-called modern education, soliciting contributions from Muslim business leaders to build vocational institutes and, later, certified colleges of medicine, engineering and pharmacy.
Strengthening higher education's contributions to solving problems, building healthy and prosperous communities, and creating a sustainable democracy is important to all of us.
Results show that the early stages see the most severe inequality of educational attainment; as students move up to higher stages of education, the contribution of SES and cultural background is largely replaced by the grade of school.
The concept of holding teachers accountable to a higher standard is great, but until teachers are accorded a salary commensurate with their education and contribution, nothing will change.
