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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.

The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

Higher SAT scores mean better college matriculation rates. So it's no wonder that private schools in ultra-competitive environments would grease the qualifying process as much as possible.

Overhead costs are far too high, state support is dropping, and college tuition is far too expensive. Colleges are pricing themselves out of existence.

The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.

The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.

There is definitely a need for increasing capacity in higher education; a large part of this is being met in the technical education segment by the private sector and in the non-technical by the state sector. In the public sector, we will do whatever we can afford.