The marketisation of higher education is a growing worldwide trend. Increasingly, market
steering is replacing or supplementing government steering. Tuition fees are being …

This paper examines the influence of psychological responses to debt on career choices
from an experiment in which alternative financial aid packages were assigned by lottery to a …

A good university is invariably assumed to be one which is managerially effective in terms of
its economic efficiency, and is judged in terms of entrepreneurialism, self-promotion and …

In this article we compare the mechanisms for funding higher education institutions across a
set of OECD countries. First, some data on public and private funding levels are presented …

Higher education rates are increasing throughout the Western world, yet at the same time,
government budgets face increasing constraints. This has ensured that the importance of …

The Australian Government has recently signalled its intention to fund programs that assist
in 'raising'the aspirations of low socio-economic status (SES) students. However, this …

Private supplementary tutoring in the form of preparatory courses to university entrance
examinations is present in Finland alongside public higher education (HE). We explore the …

Increasing reliance on market mechanisms in higher education is analysed both as one of
the approaches to steering as well as in relation to the consequences of markets for quality …

While higher education is regarded a high priority for economic development in many
countries, public budgets often fall short to support desired levels of expansion in higher …

Although economists' interest for higher education is somehow recent, it has become a
decisive force in shaping the social and political views about it. One of the aspects on which …