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Research from the International Comparative Higher Education Finance
and Accessibility Project
Volume
#5, Issue 1 - Spring 2002
The International Comparative Higher Education Finance and Accessibility
Project, funded by the Ford Foundation and directed by Professor
Johnstone, continues to profile the worldwide shift of higher education
costs from governments and taxpayers to parents and students. Country
Profiles have been completed on: Australia, Austria, Brazil, Chile,
China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong (Special Administrative
Region), Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Philippines,
Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Scotland, Singapore, Sweden,
United Kingdom, and are available on the Project Website at: http://www.gse.buffalo.edu/org/IntHigherEdFinance.
The following papers are also available from the Project Website:
Educational
Finance and Accessibility: An International Comparative Examination
of Tuition and Financial Assistance Policies (with Preeti
Shroff-Mehta), 2000.
Student
Loans in International Comparative Perspective: Promises and Failures,
Myths and Partial Truths 2000.
The
Economics and Politics of Income Contingent repayment Plans
2001.
Response to Austerity: The Imperatives and Limitations of Revenue
Diversification in Higher Education 2001.
The
Finance and Politics of Cost Sharing in Higher Education,
2001.
The
Applicability for Developing Countries of Income Contingent Loans
or Graduate Taxes, with Special Consideration of an Australian HECS-Type
Income Contingent Loan Program for Ethiopia (with Abebayehu
Aemero Silassie), 2001.
The
Project, in collaboration with the University of Dar es Salaam,
is planning a conference on Financing Higher Education in Eastern
and Southern Africa: Diversifying Revenue and Expanding Accessibility
for March 25-27, 2002 in Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania. Although the conference
is to be invitation only, proceedings will be published and reported
both on the Website and in this newsletter.
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