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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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Economic Inequality and Social Differentials in Mortality

Geronimus, Arline T. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY> - 1999

[...]In this paper, I draw on analyses that aimed todetermine whether impoverished U.S. locales varied byrace or urban/rural location in their rates and causes ofexcess mortality, and whether mortality gaps betweenimpoverished and other U.S. populations widened over thedecade from 1980 to 1990....

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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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Conclusions and Controversies about the Effectiveness of School Resources

Hanushek, Eric Alan - W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy … - 1998

[...]This paper analyzes the current state of the educationsystem in the United States. In the course of the paper, Iwill try to point out where controversy exists, particularlyin academic discussions.[...]

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