Higher Education and the Spectre of Variable Fees Public Policy and Institutional Responses in the United States and the United Kingdom
As part of a larger effort to fund public universities, variable fees at the graduate and undergraduate levels are a topic of discussion in the United States and increasingly throughout the European Union. This essay describes the relatively new shift to have students pay for a significant portion o...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Paris
OECD Publishing
2006
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| Collection: | OECD Books and Papers - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | As part of a larger effort to fund public universities, variable fees at the graduate and undergraduate levels are a topic of discussion in the United States and increasingly throughout the European Union. This essay describes the relatively new shift to have students pay for a significant portion of their university education, emerging fee structures, and discusses the possible policy implications of variable fee structures. We argue that emerging cost-sharing fee policy in the United States and in England is being pursued incrementally, without an adequate conceptual model for long-term funding of universities and their possible impact on students and academic programs |
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| Physical Description: | 28 p |