This volume presents the most comprehensive international discussion of the role of markets in higher education ever published. It reflects on both the political and economic implications of the rising trend towards introducing market elements in higher education. The book draws together many leading international scholars in the economic and policy analysis of higher education to explore different theoretical perspectives and present new empirical evidence on market mechanisms in higher education in several Western countries. The authors present a dispassionate and ideologically neutral view of the advantages and disadvantages of the introduction of market-mechanisms in higher education and of its effects in terms of access, equity, quality of provision, student learning, research and scholarship, and so on. And they balance the performance of markets in higher education against the alternative of more, or a different kind of, governmental intervention. The book will be of interest to researchers, university staff, students and government professionals working in the areas of higher education, comparative education, economics and public policy.
Author(s): Ben B. Jongbloed
Edition: 1
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 361
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Table of Contents......Page 6
List of Contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
Introduction......Page 15
Markets in Higher Education: Do They Promote Internal Efficiency?......Page 27
Cost-sharing and Equity in Higher Education: Implications of Income Contingent Loans......Page 50
Transparency and Quality in Higher Education Markets......Page 73
Regulation and Competition in Higher Education......Page 98
The Evaluation of Welfare Under Alternative Models of Higher Education Finance......Page 123
Higher Education Policy as Orthodoxy: Being One Tale of Doxological Drift, Political Intention and Changing Circumstances......Page 136
Market Coordination of Higher Education: The United States......Page 170
‘Madly Off in all Directions’: Higher Education, Marketisation and Canadian Federalism......Page 193
Australian Higher Education: National and Global Markets......Page 214
The Higher Education Market in the United Kingdom......Page 248
Rapid Expansion and Extensive Deregulation: The Development of Markets for Higher Education in the Netherlands......Page 277
Is There a Higher Education Market in Portugal?......Page 297
Higher Education and Markets in France......Page 317
Conclusion......Page 333
Glossary......Page 359
