Financial aid systems help make higher education available to all who can benefit. To "adjust" the existing financial aid system to make it more student friendly and open doors currently closed to many part-time learners and students with the greatest financial challenges, state policy changes and greater private sector initiatives…

Issues in funding adult higher education in Britain include (1) complexity of methodology; (2) discrimination against part-time study; (3) reward for teaching quality; (4) need for guidance services; (5) resources for innovation; (6) funding for noncredit programs; and (7) open and flexible delivery. A funding model based on input, process, and…

State funding mechanisms are seen as coming under scrutiny because they don't accurately reflect enrollment decline effects on overall costs. Ohio has worked out a method of relating funding formula to actual costs and Florida reduces funding by half the average cost for enrollment declines. (Author/MLW)