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Aristotelis Stamoulas 《Higher Education in Europe》2005,30(1):41-51
Higher education in Greece is considered a public good, freely and indiscriminately provided to all citizens. At the same time, the over‐centralized administration of education, together with an inadequate flow of public subsidies, force households into private expenditures and render higher education an expensive asset to be acquired on the basis of social status and economic ability. Drawing on the imperative movement towards a common European higher education area, this study examines the way state investments are directed towards public universities. It concludes that the currently mismatched funding allocations are due to the absence of any concept of varying financial rewards, which should reflect the quality of the education offered and/or the students' socio‐economic background. 相似文献
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This paper provides an overview of recent trends in basic education provision in India: charting an impressive expansion of enrolment in public schools but a growing concern with the quality of learning. Concerns around quality are seen as a driving factor in the migration of students from the public sector to low fee private schools. While there is evidence of improved learning amongst some low fee private schools there are also significant concerns around equity. The paper proposes that for the sake of future generations it is necessary to move beyond a polemical focus on state or non-state provision but rather to focus on six core questions about education provision: Is it sound pedagogically? Does it deliver meaningful learning? Is it equitable? Is it scalable? Is it financially viable and Is it sustainable? These questions are explored through a review of ‘Gyan Shala’, an innovative low cost education programme operating in the slums of Gujarat and Bihar. The paper concludes that a better understanding of the dynamic between the sectors is needed to ensure effective education planning which will deliver meaningful learning to all. 相似文献
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Regina Baron Brunner 《Computer Science Education》2013,23(2):131-137
Articles concerning computer law abound. Institutions of higher learning have produced lengthy documents addressing computer ethics on campus, and several organizations have printed materials to educate the public. Are these efforts working? Are the ethics and values in the business world and in the education world the same? Several scenarios are examined in investigating these questions. 相似文献
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Kathleen Knight Abowitz 《Educational theory》2016,66(1-2):181-197
At current rates, almost all U.S. public universities could reach a point of zero state subsidy within the next fifty years. What is a public university without public funding? In this essay, Kathleen Knight Abowitz considers the future of public universities, drawing upon the analysis provided in John Dewey's Democracy and Education. Knight Abowitz conducts an initial institutional analysis through two broad prisms: that of the political landscape that authorizes universities as public institutions, and that of the present political–economic context of public education in general and public universities in particular. Dewey's conception of democratic education is then explored; his arguments regarding aims, experience, thinking, and social intelligence provide important tools for imagining the democratic futures of public universities today. 相似文献
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《Teaching and Teacher Education》2006,22(4):513-522
In this study, we explore the following questions: (a) How do Cyprus universities that educate teachers respond to the challenge of inclusive education? Are the programmes of these institutions designed on the basis of the principles of inclusive education? What are the barriers that prevent student teachers to develop inclusive practices? How universities could help their student teachers to develop inclusive practices? These questions were investigated through qualitative data. In particular, the case study of a higher education institution in Cyprus was developed. The analysis of these data indicates certain factors that act as barriers in the development of inclusive practices by student teachers. These factors are related to the curricula, the notion of inclusion and to the different levels of culture. Developing these factors, we present at the same time particular suggestions for overcoming these barriers. 相似文献
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《International Journal of Educational Development》2001,21(4):345-359
Most discussions and policy lessons about the commercial role in education have derived from the provision of private education programs in elementary, secondary and higher, and education and training. The private education industry includes two additional categories of activity which have not been the focus of attention. These are the private provision of education products and education services. But how large are these two activities? Do they involve international trade? Do they already attract the interest of private capital? Are these activities growing, and if so, what are their implications? This analysis will attempt to respond to these questions, and will be divided into four sections.The first section defines education products and services, and outlines the structure of the two sub-sectors. The second section describes the size of commercial activity and its trends. The third section reviews the challenges and opportunities for those who are interested in investing in this arena. The fourth section asks the question of whether the commercial provision of education goods and services is good or bad, inevitable or not; whether countries, unsure about the appropriate response, should welcome or resist these trends.Commercial activity in education goods and services can be expected to grow substantially. Reliable local data are rare, in part because of how education data are categorized, and in part because education data are untrustworthy in general. Government regulations may inhibit or in some instances distort local markets, for commercial enterprises, whether local or international. On the other hand, the efficiency importance of having a highly responsive commercial sector providing education goods and services is incontestable.These changes will raise questions about the assumptions about the virtues and drawbacks of globalization, the ‘protection’ of developing countries, and the importance of maintaining local cultural integrity. They will also challenge some of the basic principles of national education systems. Do countries have the right to prohibit access to education if supplied by a non-government provider? If supplied by an international provider? Or do citizens in all democracies have the same right of access to the education of their choice? Should nations with technical or regulatory advantage be restricted from exporting education goods and services, on grounds that they may ‘dominate’ other cultures? But what if citizens want to buy it? What if they are willing to privately pay for it? Is education like a railroad or public utility? Or is there something which differentiates education from other public good services? Far from being settled, these questions will continue to be at the forefront of debate in the next few years. 相似文献
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已有相关研究多集中于探讨经费收入与学术产出的关系，但经费无法直接转化为学术研究成果，对于这一过程的“黑箱”还未有明确认识。本研究尝试分析经费支出对大学发展的影响机制并优化经费配置路径。基于2007—2018年间58所教育部直属高校的校际面板数据，研究采用逐步法和双向固定效应模型分析了经费支出对学术产出的影响程度与作用机制。研究发现：从直接效应来看，经费支出规模对学术产出具有显著正向影响；就中介效应而言，经费支出通过专任教师、硕博士生、固定资产和课题等路径实现学术产出水平的提升，其中正高级教师、硕博士生和课题项目发挥着更大的中介效应。基于此，政府可继续增加对研究型大学的经费投入，并鼓励其多渠道筹措经费；政府还要减少经费使用限制，鼓励大学优化经费配置路径和方式，将更多经费用于教师、硕博士生等人员支出，并设置更多课题项目，从而在遵循高等教育发展规律的基础上，提高经费配置效率，为提升高水平研究型大学建设水平提供实证数据、理论依据和政策参照。 相似文献
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Gerald Wangenge‐Ouma 《牛津教育评论》2013,39(4):481-497
The link between the funding of higher education and the attainment of higher education transformation goals in South Africa, especially access by students from previously under‐represented communities, is the main focus of this paper. Specifically, the paper examines three questions: (a) How does public funding of higher education encourage (or discourage) the attainment of higher education transformation goals in South Africa? (b) What challenges do frequent tuition fee increases pose to the attainment of higher education transformation goals? (c) How can South Africa’s higher education be made affordable for indigent (mostly black) students? The paper concludes that although South Africa’s higher education funding formula is generally geared towards attaining the goals of transformation, several of its aspects are inimical to the achievement of these goals. Further, declining public funding of higher education and frequent tuition fee increases by public universities vis‐à‐vis higher education’s natural inclination to reproduce, and even to exacerbate, existing social disparities and inequalities do not bode well for the attainment of transformation in South Africa’s higher education. This is aggravated by existing high levels of poverty and inequality mostly affecting the majority of the communities that were marginalised during apartheid. 相似文献
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Carol Ascher 《The Urban Review》1986,18(2):137-145
Conclusions As black students move into private schools at greater rates, a number of questions are raised. To what extent and under what conditions is a private school education better than a public school education for black students? What are the social and educational benefits and costs of being educated in a largely white environment? And what will be the benefits and costs as private schools themselves become increasingly black? Are the economic sacrifices made by black families to send their children to private school worth it to the individual child—to the black community? 相似文献
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Ann M. Gansemer-Topf Jillian Downey Katherine Thompson Ulrike Genschel 《Research in higher education》2018,59(2):174-197
Economic recessions impact higher education institutions in complex ways. Several analyses have examined the influence of the 2007–2009 recession on tuition, enrollments, revenues, and expenditures, but the connection of these resource allocation patterns to a student success outcome—namely, retention—is limited. This study examined relationships among institutional expenditures, tuition, and staffing patterns on first-year retention rates at private and public institutions in 2007, 2009 and 2011: before, during, and after the economic recession. Private and public institutions increased tuition during this time period and increased expenditures. Expenditures most directly educating students (i.e. instruction) and institutional selectivity were positively associated with retention. However, public and private institutions differed in how they allocated their expenditures. That the findings correspond with past research investigating relationships between resource allocation and retention illustrate principles of the resource dependency theory (Pfeffer and Salancik 1978): institutions impacted by external economic changes, adjust revenues, staffing, and expenditures during economic changes. 相似文献
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What level of government subsidy of higher education is justified, in what form, and for what reasons? We answer these questions by applying the hypothetical insurance approach, originally developed by Ronald Dworkin in his work on distributive justice. On this approach, when asking how to fund and deliver public services in a particular domain, we should seek to model what would be the outcome of a hypothetical insurance market: we stipulate that participants lack knowledge about their specific resources and risks, and ask what insurance contracts they would take out to secure different types of benefit and protection in the domain in question. The great benefit of the hypothetical insurance approach is that it allows us to take apparently intractable questions about interpersonal distribution and transform them into questions about intrapersonal distributions: that is, questions about how an individual would choose to distribute risks and resources across the various lives that they might end up living, in light of their individual ambitions and preferences. Applying this approach to higher education, we argue that the UK model of higher education funding in which the costs of an individual's higher education are shared between general taxation and the individual herself, with the latter element to be paid retrospectively through an income‐contingent state‐backed loan, is vindicated as just. In particular, we argue that it is more just than alternatives such as a graduate tax, full funding through general taxation, and full privatisation. 相似文献
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我国公共教育财政体制改革的进展、问题及对策 总被引：34，自引：0，他引：34
我国公共教育财政体制改革在义务教育财政体制、学生收费制度和贫困学生资助制度等方面取得了很大进展,但目前还存在一些问题,突出地表现为政府教育投入不足和公共教育资源分布不均。理论分析表明,应强调政府在教育资源配置中的基础性作用以及中央和省级政府的教育财政职能。今后我国公共教育财政体制改革应注意以下几个方面:制定和完善教育财政法规、建立公平的公立学校资源分配制度、建立规范的义务教育专项转移支付制度、选择合适的高等教育财政模式以及完善贫困学生资助制度。 相似文献
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Allowing the Market to Rule: The Case of the United States 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
David D. Dill 《Higher Education Quarterly》2003,57(2):136-157
There are increasing calls in the UK and other countries for deregulating universities so that they can better compete in the global market for higher education. Frequent allusions are made to the superiority of the US market‐oriented system. But is market competition for first degrees in the US efficient for the larger society? Do the constantly increasing social expenditures for higher education in the US benefit the public interest or do they advantage certain students and faculty members? Two recent economic studies provide greater insight into the impacts of market competition on US higher education. The results of these studies are discussed and their possible implications for higher education policy making in other countries are explored. 相似文献
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S. D. Neill 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》1973,21(3):277-297
Conclusion Having thus analyzed McLuhan’s media charts and expanded them by relating them to the process of communication, there seems
to be little in hand except questions. Do the various sectors of the model really match each other? Is the cultural perception
of space, visual or acoustic, as dominantly important as it seems to be? What is visual space? Acoustic space? How much impact
and what kind of impact do the technical factors really have? Are there alternative routes to McLuhan’s conclusions? Such
questions must be approached slowly, for many people have answers that are useful, but these have to be seen from the confines
of a model the construction of which may be nothing more than a funeral service for a powerful perception. On the other hand,
as a potentially valid analog of the communication process, it may have within it a certain power of its own. That remains
to be seen. 相似文献
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Vincent Carpentier 《Higher Education Quarterly》2012,66(4):363-390
This paper looks at the current challenge facing higher education by exploring the historical relationship between higher education funding and long economic cycles in the UK, USA and France. It examines the consequence of the transformation of public‐private income in higher education that followed the 1970s downturn, questioning whether the rise of private resources acted as additional or substitutive resources for public spending. The paper suggests that there is a risk that the cost‐sharing strategy could be turned into a policy of public‐private substitution of funding and provision, leading to a transfer rather than an increase of resources with strong implications on quality and equity. However, the Kondratiev cycle suggests an alternative route by designating the impact of the 1970s economic downturn on education as unique. Previous economic crises were contemporary of accelerations of public funding towards education which in fact contributed to economic recovery. The current crisis could represent an opportunity to revive counter‐cyclical policy by looking not only at efficient public spending but also at developing fairer taxation. A revival of public funding complemented by an additional rather than substitutive diversification of income would rebalance the public‐private structure of funding and drive a sustainable higher education system capable of playing a key part in these counter‐cyclical transformations. 相似文献
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郭雷振 《北京大学教育评论》2011,9(4):91-96
在国外,高等教育被视作一个研究领域,而非一门学科;在国内,虽然高等教育一开始就是作为一门学科来建立的,但对于高等教育到底是一个研究领域还是一门学科,学界至今依然存有争议。这种争议的背后始终绕不开的问题就是判断是否学科的标准是什么,是否存在一个公认、统一的标准?对于这些问题的回答,可为判定高等教育"学科"属性提供基本的参照。 相似文献
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《Higher Education Policy》1998,11(4):257-279
The Malaysian Government is currently implementing policies aimed at major restructuring of tertiary education throughout the country. The stimulus for change derives from the needs of rapid economic development, and in particular a demand for a skilled and well-educated professional labour force, a long-established shortfall in the number of domestic places available in higher education, and a desire to raise participation rates. Measures include corporatisation of the universities in the public sector and active encouragement of state-owned enterprises and private corporations to establish universities in the private sector. While such changes represent a radical departure from the structure of the earlier system, retention of principles favouring such measures as affirmative action for student places and entry requirements for the majority bumiputera and promotion of Bahasa Malaysia as the predominant medium of instruction is likely to limit the effectiveness of the anticipated revolution in higher education which the Government proclaims this to be. 相似文献
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Nejat Erk 《Higher Education》1989,18(2):137-147
Unequal opportunities are a fact of life in most societies. Imbalances exist in each society under all conceivable economic environments. To alleviate these imbalances, most governments tend to interfere in the market. In this respect Turkey is no exception. Thus, the government established the Turkish Higher Education Council in 1982 with the hope of improving educational resource allocation. This paper investigates the private costs of public higher education in Turkey. It also tests whether a structural cost difference exists between the universities in the three biggest cities of Turkey and the rest of the country's fifteen Universities. Does the highly subsidized Turkish Higher Education ensure equity of resource allocation? The findings show that, among the factors contributing to higher education, the number of faculty members has the lowest price elasticity of demand. In the case of assessing whether there are structural cost differences between the universities in developed and underdeveloped regions the findings show that imbalances between the two regions still exist. 相似文献