Higher Education Funding and Access in International Perspective

Sheila Riddell, Sarah Minty, Elisabet Wheedon, Susan Whittaker, Sheila Riddell, Sarah Minty, Elisabet Wheedon, Susan Whittaker

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781787546547
• eBook ISBN:
  9781787546530
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Administration

This book explores the way in which the pressures of globalisation are shaping higher education funding and access across the world. Higher education is seen as a way of developing human capital and building knowledge economies, but major debates continue about who should attend university; how the costs of higher education should be distributed between the individual student and the state; how students from non-traditional backgrounds can be helped to succeed in higher education; and the intended and unintended consequences of widening access initiatives. 

Globalisation is not a uni-directional force, but is accompanied by movements to reinforce the local and the regional, often driven by fears of loss of identity. Universities across the world have become more powerful and autonomous from the state, but at the same time students as consumers of education have an increasingly powerful voice. They frequently find themselves in opposition to the business model which infuses higher education systems and student protests have had a strong influence on policy development. This book explores the way in which the twin pressures of globalisation and localisation play out in higher education across the developed world, often reflected in more specific debates on fees regimes, access and culture.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Chapter 1 Introduction: Higher Education Funding and Access in International Perspective
• Chapter 2 Student Support in Wales: A Case of Progressive Universalism?
• Chapter 3 Higher Education Decision-Making and Young People’s Horizons for Action in Scotland
• Chapter 4 Can the Techniques of New Public Management be Used to Promote Wider Access to Higher Education?
• Chapter 5 Higher Fees, Higher Debts: Unequal Graduate Transitions in England?
• Chapter 6 The Implications of HE Funding and Provision Differences for Students Crossing Borders in the UK
• Chapter 7 Widening Access to Higher Education: Balancing Supply and Demand in Ireland
• Chapter 8 Widening Access to Higher Education in Sweden: Changing Political Ideologies, Changing Tactics?
• Chapter 9 Widening Participation in Higher Education: Policies and Outcomes in Germany
• Chapter 10 Higher Education Funding and Student Activism in Québec: The Printemps Érable and its Aftermath
• Chapter 11 The Price of University: Economic Capital and the Experience of Underrepresented Students in an Elite US University
• Chapter 12 Student Tuition Fees in Australian Higher Education: A Litany of Public Issues and Personal Troubles
• Chapter 13 Higher Education in the Developed World: Common Challenges and Local Solutions
• Index