The expansion of enrolment and attainment is a key theme in higher education research. In particular, research has … examined cross-national determinants of higher education expansion while understanding expansion through the relationship … between higher education and the labour market. Early work on higher education expansion established a key framework for …

fiscal expansion, with public investment and redistributive transfers as its main drivers. Economic performance was … extraordinary. During the second period of fiscal expansion (2011-2014), the fiscal space was reoriented towards tax cuts and …