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V. Foreign Higher Education and Education Systems, International Relations, Bilateral Relations
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Author NKRUMAH-YOUNG, Kofi K. (POWELL, Philip)
Title Exploring higher education financing options / Kofi K. Nkrumah-Young and Philip Powell
Publication year 2011
Source/Footnote In: European journal of higher education. - 1 (2011) 1, S. 3 - 21
Inventory number 31046
Keywords Ausland : Jamaika : Hochschulwesen allgemein ; Finanzierung der Hochschulen : allgemein
Abstract Higher education can be financed privately, financed by governments, or shared. Given that the benefits of education accrue to the individual and the state, many governments opt for shared financing. This article examines the underpinnings of different options for financing higher education and develops a model to compare conditions to choices and outcomes. As an illustration, it then uses the Jamaican experience of the past four decades to demonstrate outcomes. This demonstrates that, for political reasons, there were adverse outcomes, including infrastructural neglect, enrolment decline, threats to programme quality and financial difficulties but also that many of these outcomes should have been foreseen. (HRK / Abstract übernommen)