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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
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Ru-Jer, Wang – Chinese Education and Society, 2012
In recent years, the rapid growth of higher education in Taiwan has led to an essential shift from education for the elite to the massification of higher education. Although this massification is making higher education more accessible, one of the main concerns is whether opportunities for higher education are the same among all social classes in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Opportunities, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
Dearden, Lorraine; Fitzsimons, Emla; Wyness, Gill – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2011
Understanding how policy can affect university education is important for understanding how governments can promote human capital accumulation. This paper exploits historic changes to university funding policies in the UK to estimate the impact of tuition fees and maintenance grants on university participation. Previous work on this, which largely…
Descriptors: Tuition, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Grants
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Asplund, Rita; Abdelkarim, Oussama Ben; Skalli, Ali – Higher Education in Europe, 2009
Most countries have experienced soaring enrolment rates into tertiary education. While this is beneficial both to involved students and to knowledge-based societies, it also makes the funding issue even more crucial than it is usually seen to be. This paper presents first results from an analysis of the effectiveness of student loans as a funding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Background, Cohort Analysis, Student Loan Programs
Bayard, Justin; Greenlee, Edith – Statistics Canada, 2009
This report describes the educational experiences, labour market outcomes and financing of higher education of recent graduates for Canadian postsecondary education institutions using data from the 2007 National Graduates Survey (Class of 2005). The first section describes the characteristics of graduates from college, bachelor, master and…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, International Studies, Debt (Financial), Labor Market
Council for Higher Education, Jerusalem (Israel). – 1979
Statistical data on seven Israeli universities for 1977-78 are presented in this annual statistical abstract compiled by the Planning and Grants Committee of the Council for Higher Education. Data on students are tabulated according to academic institution, level of degree, field of study, age, sex, and continent of birth. Enrollments and…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Budgets, College Students, Definitions
Jallade, Jean-Pierre – 1974
The student loan program run by the Instituto Colombiano de Credito Educativo y Estudios Tecnicos en el Exterior (ICETEX) has three main objectives: to increase the country's supply of highly skilled manpower, to achieve more equality of educational opportunity, and to provide a meaningful source of finance for higher education. An analysis of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Developing Nations, Economic Factors, Educational Finance