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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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How do you fund university education? In the UK, the governmentplans to introduce variable fees from 2006, to be paid …
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Rather than being a handicap, the proposals to introduce top-up fees will prove aboon to students.[...] …
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Universities, parents and poorer students will allbenefit under the Government’s plans for top-upfees.[...]
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,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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This paper puts forward a strategy for achieving two objectives in higher education –improved access and increased …
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of student borrowing in advancedfurther education and higher education, and up to 94 per cent of borrowing for … nonadvancedfurther education. The results suggest that it would be possible for the privatesector to make student loans on the basis of a …Both the quantity and quality of education and training in Britain are being comparedunfavourably with arrangements in …
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education has been greatly exaggerated,if indeed there is a crisis at all. Nonetheless, major changes inU.S. schooling might … produce more desirable results.However, it would not be prudent to radically restructure theU.S. education system out of …
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considerableamount about a student’s background and academicaptitude, the fact that her parents are willing to spend their time and … resources to send her to a private school mayprovide additional information about the student’sacademic ability and family …
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[...]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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