Towards the Private Funding of Higher Education: Ideological and Political Struggles

ISBN-13: 9780367350062 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 192 str.

David Palfreyman; Ted Tapper; Scott Thomas

Opis

Funding Higher Education presents a contemporary global picture of the move towards the privatisation of higher education, and examines how these shifts in ideology and funding priorities have significant policy implications.

 

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Contents Page  Chapter One: The Funding of Higher Education; The Oscillating Balance between the Public and Private Financing of the University  Chapter Two: Distance Learning and the Rise of the MOOCs: The more Things Change; the more they Stay the Same  Chapter Three: The Ecology of State Higher-Education Policymaking in the U.S.  Chapter Four: The Australian Hybrid: Public and Private Higher Education Funding  Chapter Five: The United Kingdom Divided: Contested Income-Contingent Student Loans  Chapter Six: The Robust Privateness and Publicness of Higher Education: Expansion through Privatization in Poland  Chapter Seven: Germany: Resistance to Fee-Paying  Chapter Eight: Is Higher Education in Latin America a Public Good? Issues of Funding, Expansion, Stratification and Equity  Chapter Nine: Higher Education Development in China: Fast Growth and Governmental Policy since the Chinese Economic Reform of 1978  Chapter Ten: Whither the Japanese System of Higher Education? Higher Education as a Public and Private Good – Differentiation and Realignment  Chapter Eleven: How Inexorable is the Shift from the Public to the Private Funding of Higher Education?