Guide to reform of higher education: a European perspective

The efficiency of Australian universities: a data envelopment analysis

Bas Jacobs and Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg

Economic Policy, 2006, vol. 21, issue 47, 536-592

Abstract: Although there are exceptions, most European universities and institutions of higher education find it difficult to compete with the best universities in the Anglo-Saxon world. Despite the Bologna Agreement and the ambitions of the Lisbon Agenda, European universities are in need of fundamental reforms. We look at structural reforms of higher education and propose more effective use of public subsidies, more efficient modes of financing institutions of higher education, more diversity, competition, and transparency, larger private contributions and more equity. In the process we discuss the nature and governance of an institution of higher education, selection, hierarchy in higher education, grade-inflation, fair competition, private and social returns to education, income-contingent loans, equity, and transparency. We sum up with seven recommendations for reform of higher education in Europe.— Bas Jacobs and Frederick van der Ploeg

Date: 2006
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