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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
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Direct linkBicakci, Ilker C. – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2008
Similar to other underdeveloped countries, the Republic of Turkey is also faced with high levels of poverty and unemployment, and to ameliorate these problems the state has traditionally devoted much of its social welfare efforts towards improving health and education. Certain private sector corporations also recognize that to grow and advance…
Descriptors: Private Sector, Public Relations, Nongovernmental Organizations, Foreign Countries
Levy, Daniel C. – Program for Research on Private Higher Education, 2008
India demonstrates many features characteristic of private higher education in much of the world. Among these features are proportional size, with roughly 30 percent of total enrollment, and fast growth. Also rather typical is finance, which comes almost exclusively from non-government sources, principally tuition, while public higher education is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Private Sector, Democracy
Levy, Daniel C. – Program for Research on Private Higher Education, 2008
One of the salient concerns in contemporary higher education internationally is access, which is rapidly expanding. Another salient trend is the rapid expansion of private higher education. These two salient tendencies have not been treated in scholarship as heavily intertwined. Much of the reason is that many people associate "private"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Educational Trends, Public Colleges
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
Benedek, A.; Luttringer, J-M – 1996
Subgroup B of the European Training Foundation's (ETF) Advisory Forum analyzed the role of the private sector in vocational education and training (VET) and focused on the role of the social partners in the transition process. A questionnaire on the role of social partners in the development of training in market economy was sent to 110…
Descriptors: Corporate Support, Educational Change, Educational Development, Foreign Countries
