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Download full textRabossi, Marcelo – Program for Research on Private Higher Education, 2010
Private higher education literature recognizes large public-private differentiation in terms of field of study. Relative to public counterparts, private universities tend to offer their services in fields that require low initial investments and present at least relatively attractive internal private rates of return. Thus, the main objective of…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Intellectual Disciplines, College Programs, Longitudinal Studies
Direct linkAkoojee, Salim; Nkomo, Mokubung – International Journal of Educational Development, 2011
Access to higher education is a key challenge of the 21st century state. The link between higher education and personal and socio-economic development has intensified the need for ensuring that greater numbers of citizens have expanded access to and have been provided with quality higher education. The article seeks to explore how initiatives for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Development, Higher Education, Sustainable Development
Peer reviewedTan, Jason – International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de l'Education, 1998
Discusses the marketisation of education in Singapore since the mid-1980s. Describes and analyses two major manifestations of this phenomenon: encouragement of greater school autonomy and fostering of competition among schools. Argues that Singapore has a regulated market, which threatens to exacerbate the disparities between schools in terms of…
Descriptors: Competition, Decentralization, Economics, Educational Change
Praphamontripong, Prachayani – Program for Research on Private Higher Education, 2008
This paper examines different institutional characteristics of Thai private higher education in historical-organizational perspective. The analysis applies different conceptual categories of private emergence--Catholic, elite, demand-absorbing--drawn from international literature starting with Levy (1986) to the Thai case. The societal context of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Catholics, Private Sector, Institutional Characteristics
Peer reviewedKovea, Stefka; Yakimova, Ivona – Journal of Economic Education, 1998
Reports on the transformation of higher economic education in Bulgaria as part of the overall change in the society of that country. Describes the slow, painful process of shifting from a command economy to a free market-oriented system. Conservatism and fragmentation have hindered academic reform. (MJP)
Descriptors: Communism, Economics, Economics Education, Educational Change
Mortimer, Peter – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2005
France is one of the most modern countries in the world and is a leading force in Europe. A highly literate and well-educated society, France's education statistics for 2003 show 12.1 million French children in primary and secondary education and 2.2 million students in tertiary education. The concept of education as a market commodity--long since…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Free Enterprise System, Economics
