Higher Education Funding Issues: U.S. / UK Comparison

Mariam Orkodashvili ()

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: The paper compares and contrasts higher education funding sources and systems in the U.S. and the UK. The issues raised in the paper pertain to the major challenge of academia: finding financial support in times of limited resources and enhanced competition. The issues discussed throughout the paper are: funding and quality assessment of universities; funding and equity of access to post-secondary education; marketization and privatization of universities; funding, autonomy and accountability of higher education institutions.

Keywords: Funding higher education; scarce resources; marketization and privatization of higher education; quality assessment; equity of access to higher education; university autonomy and accountability. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A12 A23 D61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-12-11
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