Mit seinem Urteil vom 26. Januar 2005 hob das Bundesverfassungsgericht das Verbot von Studiengebühren für das Erststudium auf und stellt es damit den Bundesländern frei, Studiengebühren zu erheben. In diesem Beitrag wird argumentiert, dass Studiengebühren als solche nicht ungerecht sein...

Mit der Einführung von allgemeinen Studiengebühren zum demnächst beginnenden Wintersemester 2007/08 in Hessen endet voraussichtlich die erste Etappe einer Entwicklung, die mit dem Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts vom 26. Januar 2005 begonnen hat. Damals stellte das Gericht fest, dass...

A wide range of financial distress has emerged in Chinese higher education sector, and this paper aims to explain it. We pointed out that soft budget constraint is the root cause of the financial distress; our main tasks are to identify the institutional causality of soft budget constraint and...

This paper reviews the achievements of the Labour Government's education policy between 1997 and 2001. Tony Blair claimed that his Government would make education a priority. The first part of the paper reviews the scale of education spending in relation to the economy at large and within the...

The paper is part of a larger study on normative financing, an alternative scheme to the ad hoc and highly politicised budget allocation process for state universities and colleges (SUC) currently in use. Normative financing requires, among other data, per student cost benchmarks or norms for...

We study the relative preference for risk-sharing or risk-pooling income-contingent loans for higher education of risk-averse individuals who differ in their ability to benefit from education and inherited wealth. We then analyse the outcome of a majority vote between the two income-contingent...

In recent years, Uruguay has experienced a process of increasing college tuition without a counterpart to increased expenditure, which has resulted in a decrease in expenditure per student and the consequent loss of quality. In this context, one wonders how it could finance the necessary...