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

List of contents

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?

About the author

David Palfreyman is Director of the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (OxCHEPS), New College, University of Oxford, UK.
Ted Tapper is a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (OxCHEPS), New College, University of Oxford, UK.
Scott Thomas is Professor and Dean of the College of Education and Social Services at the University of Vermont, USA.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Unive New College, David (Oxcheps Palfreyman, David Tapper Palfreyman
• Assisted by: David Palfreyman (Editor), Palfreyman David (Editor), Ted Tapper (Editor), Tapper Ted (Editor), Scott Thomas (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367350062
• ISBN: 978-0-367-35006-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: International Studies in Higher Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education; EDUCATION / General, Education, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Funding of education & student finance, Funding of education and student finance