Higher education finances lie at the crossroads in many Western countries. On the one hand, the surging demand of the past three or four decades, driven by a belief in higher education as a principal engine of social and economic advancement, has led to dramatic growth of the higher education systems in these countries. On the other hand, this growth in demand was accompanied by rapidly increasing per-student cost pressures at a time when governments seemed increasingly unable to keep pace with these cost pressures through public revenues. Hence, worldwide, the most common approach to the...
Higher education finances lie at the crossroads in many Western countries. On the one hand, the surging demand of the past three or four decades, d...
Recent years have seen the strengthening of a discourse that emphasises the virtues of markets, competition and private initiative, vis-a-vis the vices of public intervention in higher education. This volume presents a timely reflection about the effects this increasing marketization has been producing in many higher education systems worldwide. The various chapters of this volume analyse the impact of markets at the system level, with significant attention being devoted to the changes in modes of regulation, the strengthening of aspects such as privatization and inter-institutional...
Recent years have seen the strengthening of a discourse that emphasises the virtues of markets, competition and private initiative, vis-a-vis the vice...
Recent years have seen the strengthening of a discourse that emphasises the virtues of markets, competition and private initiative, vis-a-vis the vices of public intervention in higher education. This volume presents a timely reflection about the effects this increasing marketization has been producing in many higher education systems worldwide. The various chapters of this volume analyse the impact of markets at the system level, with significant attention being devoted to the changes in modes of regulation, the strengthening of aspects such as privatization and inter-institutional...
Recent years have seen the strengthening of a discourse that emphasises the virtues of markets, competition and private initiative, vis-a-vis the vice...
The original book published with the IZA, this work presents and analyzes the work of one of the most important economists of the 20th century - Jacob Mincer. Mincer's work has had a lasting influence on contemporary labor economics in both theoretical and methodological terms. Mincer played a central role in shaping contemporary labor economics, not the least by largely determining its research agenda. His work in the 1960s and 70s on the determinants of individual earnings, notably human capital, and on labor force supply, particularly female participation, have had an enormous impact on...
The original book published with the IZA, this work presents and analyzes the work of one of the most important economists of the 20th century - Jacob...
This book traces the evolution of recent reforms in higher education, including the ideas, representations, ideologies and theories on which they are built, offers comparisons within and between countries, and the assesses the overall impact of the reforms.
This book traces the evolution of recent reforms in higher education, including the ideas, representations, ideologies and theories on which they are ...
