Sentence examples for higher education access from inspiring English sources

Prior to joining NYPL, Mr. Swarthout worked as Senior Education Adviser to Senator Edward Kennedy and Senator Tom Harkin handling issues of higher education access, college affordability, student loan debt, and school quality.

— CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE Chile promises to invest $4 billion in broad overhaul In the face of student protests, Chile's president, Sebastián Piñera, has announced a $4 billion fund meant to ensure higher education access for poorer students and general restructuring of educational institutions.

I do not think that higher education "access" is that laudable of a goal.

In 2011, the Review of higher education access and outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people was launched.

The Office for Fair Access (Offa), the government's higher education access watchdog, said 24 universities and one further education college had reduced the fees they intended to charge.

Truly open access to higher education, access that attempts to redress real inequalities of class, race and gender, provides little immediate profit.

Others pitched plans to improve higher-education access for the disadvantaged and sustain the market for innovative energy sources.

"These programs are such an enormous victory," said Christine Lindstrom, director of the higher-education access program at U.S. PIRG, the consumer advocacy group.

Race appears to play a central role in shaping Americans' views on higher-education access, and many see minority students as advantaged and middle-class students as disadvantaged when it comes to opportunity to attend college, according to study results scheduled to be presented next week at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association.

We talk a lot about the limitations undocumented status poses to undocumented immigrants -- unequal access to higher education, no access to legal employment, fear of deportation, limited access to driver's licenses, etc.

Students and parents also have essential roles to play in helping higher education expand access and boost graduation rates.