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Introducing Vouchers and Standardized Tests for Higher Education in Russia : Expectations and Measurements
Osipian, Ararat - 2008
The reform of higher education in Russia, based on standardized tests and educational vouchers, was intended to reduce … inequalities in access to higher education. The initiative with the vouchers has failed and by now is already forgotten while the … paper analyses the reform and suggests a methodology of measuring effects of the reform on access to higher education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014213941
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How does the elimination of state aid to for-profit colleges affect enrollment? : evidence from California's reforms
Gurantz, Oded; Sakoda, Ryan; Sarkar, Shayak - 2021
This paper examines how financial aid reform based on postsecondary institutional performance impacts student choice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012695642
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Proposes on Higher Education Government Reform in Russia
Pyshkin, Andrew - 2015
higher education in Russia. The first one is changing of the managerial model for higher education institutions moving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014137931
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Higher Education in Transition to a Market Economy : A Case Study
Hare, Paul G.; Lugachyov, Mikhail - 1998
of the situation in Tomsk with reference to four important issues facing Russia?s incompletely reformed economy. These …; and (4) non-functioning of the market economy. The paper concludes by highlighting areas in which further reform progress …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014060204
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Diversification of university income : Polish practice and international solutions
Rozmus, Andrzej; Cyran, Karolina - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 8 (2012) 4, pp. 64-75
In the face of global economic problems European (and not only European) universities are forced to diversify their income. The constant and stable stream of governmental funds for education is beginning to dry up.For the majority of Polish universities the main and noticeably dominant source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010187994
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Risk-sharing in higher education : a policy proposal
Webber, Douglas A. - 2018
As concerns over growing levels of student loan debt continue to mount for both students and taxpayers, many have called for an improved accountability system in the U.S. higher education system. In this policy brief, I discuss the many flaws in our current system, and outline how a system known...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011901980
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Tuition fees and educational attainment
Bietenbeck, Jan; Marcus, Jan; Weinhardt, Felix - 2020
Following a landmark ruling by the Constitutional Court in 2005, more than half of Germany's universities started charging tuition fees, which also applied to incumbent students. We exploit this unusual lack of grandfathering together with register data covering the universe of students to show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012285889
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University dropout problems and solutions
Bertola, Giuseppe - 2021
Frequent non-completion in optional education can be efficient if dropouts optimally exercise an option rationally foreseen by previous enrollment choices. This paper shows that in educational opportunities and groups of students where enrollment resolves more pronounced individual uncertainty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012428968
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Tuition fees and educational attainment
Bietenbeck, Jan; Marcus, Jan; Weinhardt, Felix - 2020
Following a landmark ruling by the Constitutional Court in 2005, more than half of Germany's universities started charging tuition fees, which also applied to incumbent students. We exploit this unusual lack of grandfathering together with register data covering the universe of students to show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293412
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Keeping it in the family : student to degree match
Murphy, Richard; Silva, Pedro Luis - 2024
This paper examines systematic inequalities in the match between students and the university degree they apply to, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014519843