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Sutton Trust, 2024
While the tuition fee system has had a large amount of political and media attention in the last two decades, far less attention has been paid to the student maintenance system -- the amount of funding students have access to for day to day living expenses. But for many students, this funding is of more immediate importance, and can have a major…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Costs, Foreign Countries, Student Loan Programs
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James, Malcolm; Boden, Rebecca; Kenway, Jane – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022
The sociological literature on elite private schooling is frequently informed by Bourdieu's signature concepts of cultural, social and symbolic capital. Yet, his insistence that economic capital is the 'root' of these other capitals is often overlooked or downplayed. This paper addresses this lacuna. While it gestures to Bourdieu's other capitals,…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Advantaged, Accounting, Taxes
Higher Education Funding Council for England, 2016
This report provides an overview of the current financial health of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) funded higher education sector in England. This does not include directly funded further education or other colleges, or alternative providers of higher education. The analysis covers financial results for the academic year…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Fiscal Capacity, Educational Finance, Funding Formulas
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Davies, Peter; Davies, Neil M. – British Educational Research Journal, 2014
Education policy in England has explicitly aimed to remodel state schools in the image of independent, private, schools. However, the body of research evidence on the operation of private schools is very small. Critics have frequently argued that, in contrast to state schools, private schools use resources efficiently because their autonomy gives…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Resource Allocation, Income
Higher Education Funding Council for England, 2015
This report provides an overview of the financial health of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)-funded higher education sector in England. The analysis covers financial results for the academic year 2013-14, as submitted to HEFCE in December 2014, as well as the outcomes from the sector's Transparent Approach to Costing (TRAC)…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Feedback (Response), Educational Finance, Foreign Countries
Chronicle of Higher Education, 2004
"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. This November 5, 2004 issue of "Chronicle for Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "Measure Professor's Real Service, Not Lip Service" (Furman, Andrew);…
Descriptors: Faculty Evaluation, Psychiatry, Television, Innovation