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Financing higher education: Comparing the options

Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

This paper analyses three options for financing higher education:• Tax funding, as proposed by the Liberal Democrats … proposed in the White Paper on highereducation (Department of Education and Skills, 2003).[...] …

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Financing higher education in the UK: The 2003 White Paper

Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

,b,c,d,e; Crawford, 2002) – offers a strongly supportive assessmentof the strategy in the White Paper (Department for Education and …

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Funding higher education: policies for access and quality

Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science

This paper puts forward a strategy for achieving two objectives in higher education –improved access and increased …

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Making universities UNIVERSAL

Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

How do you fund university education? In the UK, the governmentplans to introduce variable fees from 2006, to be paid …

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Why nobody need lose in this system

Barr, Nicholas A.; Crawford, Iain - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

Rather than being a handicap, the proposals to introduce top-up fees will prove aboon to students.[...]

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University funding: discuss

Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

Universities need cash, students need support and there are too few working-classentrants. After a two-year extension, Charles Clarke and the class of '73 are all set todeliver answers to these problems. Nicholas Barr offers a guide to how you, theexaminers, should mark their responses.[...]

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United Kingdom Education 1997-2001

Glennerster, Howard - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

claimed that hisGovernment would make education a priority. The first part of thepaper reviews the scale of education spending … in relation to theeconomy at large and within the education budget. The second part ofthe paper looks at the productivity … education, theintroduction of income related loans to cover maintenance and up frontfees. The paper concludes some serious …

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Social Indicators and the Study of Inequality

Meyers, Marcia K.; Garfinkel, Irwin - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999

[...]The New York City Social Indicators Survey (SIS)project represents one effort to track the consequences ofpolicy reform and devolution for inequality and well-beingin the largest and most diverse city in the United States.The project uses a telephone survey to collect data from arepeated...

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Measuring the Value of Better Schools

Black, Sandra E. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1998

[...]In this paper, I examine two methods of measuringthe value of better schools. One involves following individualsover time to determine how the quality of theirschooling affects outcomes later in their lives; the otherinvolves calculating parental valuation of better schoolstoday. I review...

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The Two-Legged Stool: The Neglected Role of Educational Standards in Improving America’s Public Schools

Betts, Julian R. - University of California <Berkeley, Calif.> / San Diego …; … - 1998

[...]The central point is simple: far and away themost important determinant of how quickly studentslearn is the effort of students themselves. It follows thatan increase in schools’ expectations of students couldhave important effects on the quality of public schooling.By establishing a...

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