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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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Inside this Issue:
Professor Yoshiko Nozaki joins the Comparative and Global Studies Faculty
Conference on Cost Sharing in Africa
Social Identities In Transnational Times
GSE begins Masters in School Counseling in Singapore
Nationalism, Education and War Memory in Postwar Japan
Did you know?
Graduate Study in Comparative Education at The State University of New York at Buffalo
Cost-Sharing: The Scholarly Agenda
Research from the International Comparative Higher Education Finance and Accessibility Project
Dr. Lam Quang Thiep, Fulbright Senior Scholar
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