Author(s): Nicholas Barr
Edition: 1
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 336
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Foreword......Page 12
Preface......Page 16
Copyright acknowledgements......Page 21
Higher education in Britain, 1987 to 2004......Page 24
Introducing student loans......Page 50
1987 Income-contingent loans: a central theme......Page 52
1988 Setting universities free from central planning: a second central theme......Page 57
1989 A specific loan proposal......Page 66
1990 The government loan scheme: a critique......Page 89
1991 Pulling the arguments together......Page 100
The chickens come home to roost: the Dearing Report......Page 122
1993 Alternative funding sources for higher education......Page 124
1995 Education and the life cycle......Page 143
1997 Evidence to the Dearing Committee: funding higher education in an age of expansion......Page 161
1998 The Dearing Report and the Government's response: a critique......Page 192
1998 An international view......Page 216
Shifting tectonic plates: the 2004 legislation......Page 232
2000 The benefits of education: what we know and what we don't......Page 234
2002 Evidence to the Education Select Committee 1: funding higher education, policies for access and quality......Page 254
2002 Evidence to the Education Select Committee 2......Page 285
2003 The Higher Education White Paper: a critique......Page 292
Onwards and outwards......Page 312
Financing higher education: a universal model......Page 314
Index......Page 332
