Regulation and marketisation in the Portuguese higher education system

Miguel Portela (), Nelson Areal (), Carla Sa (), Fernando Alexandre (), João Cerjeira (), Ana Carvalho () and Artur Rodrigues
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Nelson Areal: Universidade do Minho - NEGE, http://nareal.aovento.com
João Cerjeira: Universidade do Minho - NIPE, http://joao.cerejeira.googlepages.com/
Ana Carvalho: Universidade do Minho - NEGE
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: João Cerejeira ()

No 11/2007, NIPE Working Papers from NIPE - Universidade do Minho

Abstract: This paper builds on the ongoing discussion on regulation and marketisation of higher education. It aims at investigating the higher education market (des)equilibrium. Teixeira, Rosa and Amaral (2004) have analysed the presence/absence of market mechanisms in the Portuguese higher education sector. We go a step further in quantifying the (mis)mactching between demand and supply, by suggesting and computing a set of indicators, which provide the starting point for a ranking-based analysis. Institutional rankings are central to overcome the problem of absence of information on quality in higher education systems, which is a basic requirement for a real higher education market.

Keywords: higher education market; demand; supply (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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