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Canada’s federal and provincial governments spend a lot of money subsidizing postsecondary students. Tuition and … credits go disproportionately to students from relatively well-off families, who are not relatively sensitive to the costs of … postsecondary education, with students from lower-income families benefiting from them only after they have finished their education …
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The number of tertiary students enrolled outside their home country has almost doubled in the last decade. In higher … students who can be expected to work abroad after graduation with high probability. This paper analyzes whether and how student …, this points into the direction that the larger the share of foreign students among all students in a country, the more a …
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The subject of how to finance Higher Education (HE) has been on the agenda of successive UK governments since the 1960s. The UK has moved from a situation where the taxpayer footed the entire bill for HE, to a system where graduates themselves must contribute part of the cost of their education....
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This paper investigates to which extent students in higher education respond to financial incentives by adjusting their … study behavior. Students in Norway who completed certain graduate study programs between autumn 1990 and 1995 on stipulated … of the restitutions given will be for students who would otherwise not have graduated on time. A series of robustness …
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Our study is intended to analyze: a) the issue of higher education under funding; b) the “disguised subsidizing” of higher education based on tuition fees; c) the supplementary revenues sources for universities; d) the funding mechanisms of higher education. We aim to incite debate on the...
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There is a recent tendency toward encouraging universities to merge. This policy is based on the idea that mergers create synergy gains that enhance universities’ prestige by increasing their international visibility. However, this process may reduce competition for both research funds and...
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correlation between ability and financial resources most of these new students are from the lower end of the ability distribution …
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controlled fees and can make the majority of students even worse off than a central student assignment system with very poor …
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programs versus programs requiring tuition. Between 1994 and 2008 Poland has undoubtedly improved the participation of students …
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