International Perspectives on Financing Higher Education

Josef C. Brada, Wojciech Bienkowski, Masaaki Kuboniwa

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Palgrave Macmillan
04 October 2015

Higher education is increasingly important to the labor market success of individuals and the prosperity of nations, yet, as this book shows, public funding for higher education is declining. It presents innovative approaches to increasing funding for universities through closer ties with business and through privatization of universities.

Edited by: Josef C. Brada, Wojciech Bienkowski, Masaaki Kuboniwa
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 3.551kg
ISBN: 9781137549136
ISBN 10: 1137549130
Pages: 196
Publication Date: 04 October 2015
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction; Josef C. Brada 1. Competing for Public Resources: Higher Education and Academic Research in Europe. A Cross-Sectoral Perspective by Marek Kwiek 2. Restructuring of the Higher Educational System in Japan by Satoshi Mizobata and Masahiko Yoshii 3. Financing Universities and a Plea for Privatization by Johan Gooitzen Wissema 4. Student Loans: the Big Debate by Karina Ufert 5. The 2012/13 Reforms of Student Finances and Funding in England: the Implications for the Part-Time Undergraduate Higher Education Sector by Claire Callender 6. Higher Education Investment Fund - A New Approach for the Private Financing of Higher Education by Dieter Dohmen 7. University-Industry and Business Cooperation: Global Imperatives and Local Challenges. An Example from Portugal by Tatyana Koryakina, Pedro Nuno Teixeira, Claudia S. Sarrico 8. Cooperation between a university and industry - good practices by Jakub Brdulak 9. Challenges in research: A strategic approach by Jan Andersen Index

Jan Andersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Jakub Brdulak, Associate Professor, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland Claire Callender, Birkbeck College, UK Dieter Dohmen, Forschungsinstitut fur Bildungs- und Sozialokonomie (Institute for Education and Socio-economic Research), Germany Tatyana Koryakina, Center for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES), Portugal Marek Kwiek, University of Poznan, Poland Satoshi Mizobata, Kyoto University, Japan Claudia S. Sarrico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Pedro N. Teixeira, University of Porto, Portugal Karina Ufert, SPARK, Myanmar Johan G. (Hans) Wissema, Technology University, Netherlands Masahiko Yoshii, Kobe University, Japan