Markets in Higher Education - Rhetoric or Reality? (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)

This volume presents the most comprehensive international discussion of the role of markets in higher education ever published. It reflects on both the political and economic implications of the rising trend towards introducing market elements in higher education. The book draws together many leading international scholars in the economic and policy analysis of higher education to explore different theoretical perspectives and present new empirical evidence on market mechanisms in higher education in several Western countries.

The authors present a dispassionate and ideologically neutral view of the advantages and disadvantages of the introduction of market-mechanisms in higher education and of its effects in terms of access, equity, quality of provision, student learning, research and scholarship, and so on. And they balance the performance of markets in higher education against the alternative of more, or a different kind of, governmental intervention.

The book will be of interest to researchers, university staff, students and government professionals working in the areas of higher education, comparative education, economics and public policy.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Higher Education Dynamics, 6
Release date:	October 2004
First published:	2004
Editors:	Pedro Teixeira • Ben B Jongbloed • David D. Dill • Alberto Amaral
Dimensions:	297 x 210 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	355
Edition:	2004 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4020-2815-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > General
LSN:	1-4020-2815-6
Barcode:	9781402028151

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