This timely volume identifies the major trends in the financing of higher education that occurred during the first half of the 1990s. The editors have collected a series of articles contributed by such prominent individuals in this field as Brian Roherty, David Breneman, Joni Finney, and Robert Zemsky, who share their insights and expertise.
Financing of Higher Education: A Comparative Study of Public and Private Financing
This paper develops a public education scheme that takes uncertainty aspects of private educational investments explicitly into account.
Frey , William H. , Alan Berube , Audrey Singer , and Jill H. Wilson . Getting Current Recent Demographic Trends in Metropolitan America . Washington , DC : Metropolitan Policy Program , Brookings Institution , 2009 . htte ...
Examines the universal phenomenon of cost-sharing in higher education -- where financial responsibility shifts from governments and taxpayers to students and families.
While the then Nationalist Party Government claimed that education would be separate but equal, the statistics clearly indicate that Africans did not have educational opportunities equal to those of Whites (Bunting, 1994, pp. 8-10).
This book is arranged into four major themes. Part 1 deals with the various possible modes of financing of higher education, such as the credit market and voucher system. Part 2 deals with strategies to mobilize the resources.
The principal papers from this project are reproduced in this volume.
Higher Education Finance Research: Policy, Politics, and Practice fills that void. The book is structured in four parts.
By using multiple international and regional examples to analyse the various pressures for privatisation, this book examines the different forms privatisation has taken, whilst offering an analytical interpretation of why the privatisation ...
Demonstrates the direct relationship between public investments in higher education and a strong regional economy. While the book focuses on New England, the issues raised will necessarily keenly influence all...