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The financing of higher education is undergoing great change in
many countries around the world. In recent years many countries are
moving from a system where the costs of funding higher education
are shouldered primarily by taxpayers, through government
subsidies, to one where students pay a larger share of the costs.
There are a number of factors driving these trends, including: * A
push for massification of higher education, in the recognition that
additional revenue streams are required above and beyond those
funds available from governments in order to achieve higher
participation rates * Macroeconomic factors, which lead to
constraints on overall government revenues * Political factors,
which manifest in demands for funding of over services, thus
restricting the funding available for higher (tertiary) education *
A concern that the returns to higher education accrue primarily to
the individual, rather than to society, and thus students should
bear more of the burden of paying for it This volume will help to
contribute to an understanding of how these trends occur in various
countries and regions around the world, and the impact they have on
higher education institutions, students, and society as a whole.
With contributions for the UK, USA, South Africa and China this
vital new book gives a truly global picture of the rapidly changing
situation
The financing of higher education is undergoing great change in
many countries around the world. In recent years many countries are
moving from a system where the costs of funding higher education
are shouldered primarily by taxpayers, through government
subsidies, to one where students pay a larger share of the costs.
There are a number of factors driving these trends, including: A
push for massification of higher education, in the recognition that
additional revenue streams are required above and beyond those
funds available from governments in order to achieve higher
participation rates Macroeconomic factors, which lead to
constraints on overall government revenues Political factors, which
manifest in demands for funding of over services, thus restricting
the funding available for higher (tertiary) education A concern
that the returns to higher education accrue primarily to the
individual, rather than to society, and thus students should bear
more of the burden of paying for it This volume will help to
contribute to an understanding of how these trends occur in various
countries and regions around the world, and the impact they have on
higher education institutions, students, and society as a whole.
With contributions for the UK, USA, South Africa and China this
vital new book gives a truly global picture of the rapidly changing
situation
Changing Higher Education for a Changing World draws on the
outcomes of the cutting-edge research programmes of the UK-based
Centre for Global Higher Education, the world's largest social
science research centre focused on higher education and its future.
In countries with incomes at European levels, the majority of all
families now have connections to higher education, and there is
widespread popular interest in how it can be made better. Together,
the contributors sharply illuminate key issues of public and policy
interest across the world: Do research universities make society
more equal or more unequal? Are students graduating with too much
debt? Who do we want to be attending universities? Will learning
technologies will abolish the need for bricks-and-mortar higher
education institutions? What can countries do to improve their
scientific performance? How can comparative teaching assessment and
research assessment become much more effective? The book explores
higher education in the major higher education regions including
China, Europe, the UK and the USA.
Changing Higher Education for a Changing World draws on the
outcomes of the cutting-edge research programmes of the UK-based
Centre for Global Higher Education, the world's largest social
science research centre focused on higher education and its future.
In countries with incomes at European levels, the majority of all
families now have connections to higher education, and there is
widespread popular interest in how it can be made better. Together,
the contributors sharply illuminate key issues of public and policy
interest across the world: Do research universities make society
more equal or more unequal? Are students graduating with too much
debt? Who do we want to be attending universities? Will learning
technologies will abolish the need for bricks-and-mortar higher
education institutions? What can countries do to improve their
scientific performance? How can comparative teaching assessment and
research assessment become much more effective? The book explores
higher education in the major higher education regions including
China, Europe, the UK and the USA.
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