#higher education

We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system. ↗

— Donna Shalala

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Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

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For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing. ↗

— Vince Cable

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Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness. ↗

— Vince Cable

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Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future. ↗

— Thad Cochran

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The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education. ↗

— John Conyers

#chosen #costs #education #higher #higher education

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#desperate #education #feeding #handed #higher

In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy. ↗

— Mike Rogers

#any #deserves #education #employer #enjoy

The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education. ↗

— Ron Kind

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Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization. ↗

— John Agyekum Kufuor

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