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Book SynopsisFinancing Higher Education Worldwide combines sophisticated economic explanations with sensitive political and cultural analyses of the financial pressures facing higher education throughout the world.
Trade ReviewThis book is a must read for policy-makers, researchers, educationalists, journalists and students of financing higher education worldwide for the theoretical insight and empirical data. -- Asha Gupta Journal of Educational Planning and Administration 2010 This is a book full of detail and informed comment that should be read by all who want to understand and be informed about many of the major issues surrounding the financing of higher education in the 21st century. -- Johns Mace HIGHER EDUCATION REVIEW 2011 This book is a must read for the policy-makers, researchers, educationists, journalists and students of financing higher education worldwide for the theoretical insight and empirical data. Journal of Educational Planning and Administration 2010 A great overview of the financing challenges facing each country's higher education system. -- John J. Cheslock Journal of Higher Education 2011 Usefully describes various policies and different countries' approaches to dees, loans, and other financial aid. -- Claire Callender Comparative Education Review 2011
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction
1. Diverging Trajectories of Higher Education's Costs and Public Revenues Worldwide
2. Financial Austerity and Solutions on the Cost Side
3. The Perspective and Policy of Cost-Sharing
4. Parental Contributions, Means-Testing, andFinancial Assistance
5. The Spread of Tuition Fees
6. Student Loan Schemes in Purpose, Form, and Consequence
7. Student Loan Schemes in Practice
8. Cost-Sharing, Financial Assistance, and Student Behavior
9. Cost-Sharing in Practice Worldwide
10. Cost-Sharing and the Future of International Higher Educational Finance
Appendix: Selected Country Examples of Cost-Sharing
Selected Bibliography
Index
