| Document Type
|
:
|
BL
|
| Record Number
|
:
|
955447
|
| Doc. No
|
:
|
b709817
|
| Main Entry
|
:
|
Barr, N. A.
|
| Title & Author
|
:
|
Financing higher education : : answers from the UK /\ Nicholas Barr and Iain Crawford.
|
| Publication Statement
|
:
|
London ;New York :: Routledge,, 2005.
|
| Page. NO
|
:
|
1 online resource (1 volume)
|
| ISBN
|
:
|
0203321510
|
|
|
:
|
: 0415346207
|
|
|
:
|
: 0415348579
|
|
|
:
|
: 1134280696
|
|
|
:
|
: 1134280734
|
|
|
:
|
: 1134280742
|
|
|
:
|
: 9780203321515
|
|
|
:
|
: 9780415346207
|
|
|
:
|
: 9780415348577
|
|
|
:
|
: 9781134280698
|
|
|
:
|
: 9781134280735
|
|
|
:
|
: 9781134280742
|
| Bibliographies/Indexes
|
:
|
Includes bibliographical references and index.
|
| Contents
|
:
|
Higher education in Britain, 1987 to 2004 -- Income-contingent loans : a central theme -- Setting universities free from central planning : a second central theme -- A specific loan proposal -- The 1990 government loan scheme : a critique -- Pulling the arguments together -- Alternative funding sources for higher education -- Education and the life cycle -- The game resumes : evidence to the Dearing Committee -- The Dearing report and government response : a critique -- An international view -- The benefits of education : what we know and what we don't -- Evidence to the Education Select Committee 1 -- Evidence to the Education Select Committee 2 -- The higher education white paper : a critique -- Financing higher education: a universal model.
|
| Abstract
|
:
|
This topical volume tells the story of the UK debate on financing higher education, illustrating a head-on collision between the economic imperatives of student loans and regulated market forces, and the political imperative of 'free' higher education. In telling the story of the partnership of an economist and a political professional, the book offers lessons about both policy design and the politics of reform: of particular relevance to countries which have not yet addressed the issue, including many OECD countries, the more advanced post-communist reforming countries and, increasingly, t.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Education, Higher-- Great Britain-- Finance.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Universities and colleges-- Great Britain-- Finance.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
EDUCATION-- Higher.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Education, Higher-- Finance.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Universities and colleges-- Finance.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Education, Higher-- Great Britain-- Finance.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Universities and colleges-- Great Britain-- Finance.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Great Britain.
|
| Dewey Classification
|
:
|
378.106
|
| LC Classification
|
:
|
LB2337.G7.B37 2005eb
|
| NLM classification
|
:
|
G649. 561clc
|
| Added Entry
|
:
|
Crawford, Iain,1947-
|