International Perspectives on Financing Higher Education

by Brada, Josef C.; Bienkowski, Wojciech; Kuboniwa, Masaaki

• ISBN13: 9781137549136
• ISBN10: 1137549130
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-10-05
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The funding of higher education is under stress. On the one hand, the benefits of universities for economic prosperity and growth are increasing as universities graduate more students, undertake a greater share of scientific research, and through cooperation with business, stimulate the technological advance of the private sector. At the same time, government funding of higher education is stagnating or even falling in many countries. This book brings together the views of an international group of experts on the financing of higher education. They examine funding trends in Asia, Europe and the United States, and present practical proposals for the reform of university funding and operations. They also present examples of successful ways of building links between industry and universities that can be mutually beneficial and supplement government funding of higher education.

Author Biography

Josef C. Brada is Professor of Economics Emeritus at Arizona State University. He is co-editor of Comparative Economic Studies and Editor of Eastern European Economics. Brada has published extensively on comparative economic systems, transition economics, economic growth and international economics.

Wojciech Bienkowski received his MA degree from the Warsaw School of Economics. He studied at the PhD program of the University of Rochester and at Harvard University as a visiting scholar. Currently he is Dean of the Department of Economics and Management at Lazarski University and Director of its US Economy and Transatlantic Relations Institute.

Masaaki Kuboniwa is Professor at the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University and a senior fellow of National Chung Hsing University. He received his MA and PhD from Hitotsubashi University. He has written extensively on economic mathematical modelling, the quantitative analysis of development, and the comparative analysis of the Soviet and the post-Soviet economies.

Table of Contents

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, Cláudia 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