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Espinoza, Oscar; González, Luis Eduardo – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2013
This study analyzes how access to public and private institutions of higher education in Chile has changed as the post-secondary system has become increasingly privatized. It analyses access by young people to higher education from four perspectives: funding type (public/private), gender, family income level, and ethnicity. The study uses…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Private Colleges, Public Colleges
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Dong, Haiying; Wan, Xuehong – Current Issues in Education, 2012
Students in China are being shouldered with more financial responsibility for their higher education. This shift impacts individuals across the economic spectrum in different ways. This paper assesses recent trends in China's higher education tuition and fees, and the implications on educational equity. Results document substantial increases in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Tuition
White, Margaret – British Columbia Teachers' Federation, 2009
In 2006, there were an estimated 181,000 low-income children in the province, with British Columbia (BC) reporting the highest before-tax child poverty rate (21.9%) in Canada (15.8%) for the fifth year in a row. This was the news in the "2008 Child Poverty Report Card" recently released by the First Call: BC Child and Youth Advocacy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Income, Public Education