Financing higher education : : cost-sharing in international perspective / / D. Bruce Johnstone.

• Superior document: Global Perspectives on Higher Education ; 3
• VerfasserIn: Johnstone, D. Bruce 1941-
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam, Netherlands ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2006]; 2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Global Perspectives on Higher Education ; 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Public systems of higher education worldwide are caught between increasing public and private demand for their products, rising per-student costs, and flat or even declining governmental revenues. Thus, the fundamental condition of higher education, especially in the low and middle income countries, is dominated by the radically diverging trajectories of higher education costs and available governmental revenues, underscoring the worldwide search for other-than-governmental revenue sources for higher education. This is the higher educational austerity rationale for cost-sharing—which term reflects both the simple fact that the underlying costs of higher education are shared by governments (or taxpayers), parents, students, and philanthropists, as well as a description of a worldwide policy trend of these costs being increasingly shifted from governments to parents and students. The underlying theory of cost-sharing as well as the description of its worldwide reach were developed from 1986 through 2006 mainly by the works of Johnstone and his Ford Foundation financed International Higher Education Finance and Accessibility Project at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The principal papers from this project are reproduced in this volume. They examine the worldwide shift in the burden of higher education costs from governments and taxpayers to parents and students, and the policies of grants, loans and other governmental interventions designed to maintain higher educational accessibility in the face of this shift.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Cost Sharing in Higher Education: Tuition, Financial Assistance and Accessibility in Comparative Perspective. -- In Response to Austerity: The Imperatives and Limitations of Revenue Diversification in Higher Education. -- Tuition Policies In A Comparative Perspective: Theoretical And Political Rationales / Pamela N. Marcucci and D. Bruce Johnstone -- Higher Educational Accessibility and Financial Viability: The Role of Student Loans. -- Cost Sharing and the Cost Effectiveness of Grants and Loan Subsidies to Higher Education. -- Income Contingent Loans and Graduate Taxes: Can They Work in Developing and Transitional Countries? -- Means Testing: The Dilemma Of Targeting Subsidies In African Higher Education / Abebayehu A. Tekleselassie and D. Bruce Johnstone -- Higher Education Finance and Accessibility: Tuition Fees and Student Loans in Sub-Saharan Africa. -- Student Loans in the Russian Federation: Policy Options -- Fear And Loathing Of Tuition Fees: An American Perspective On Higher Education Finance In The Uk. -- Higher Educational Affordability and Opportunity in Ontario: the Illogic of a Continued Tuition Freeze. -- Appendix: Readings on Cost Sharing in Higher Education -- Author Biography.