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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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to students on the basis both of financial need and academic (and other) merit, with merit influencing not only total …-secondary education, both whether and where they attend are importantly influenced by family background. Among students who score well on …, while only about 75% of those from low SES backgrounds do. High-income students are also more likely to attend private …
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This study examines the impact of the charging of tuition fees between 2006 and 2014 in several German federal states on the number of first-year student enrollments. Since Germany is known for a tuition-free education policy at public institutions, the fundamental question arises of whether,...
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In the search for a viable 21st century cost-sharing contract between university, student and state, the issues of rising participation and student demand, functional differentiation, institutional competition and stratification and social inequality are systematically discussed. The argument...
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It is well known that higher education financing involves uncertainty and risk with respect to students' future … this important international policy reform that has motivated the chapter. An ICL provides students with finance for …
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This paper aims at linking cross border mobility of students and graduates with the financing of higher education … costs between students / graduates and tax-payers is studied as well as the (optimal) sharing of the tax-payers ́part …
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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...
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Working has become commonplace among college students; however, this activity can have unexpected financial … consequences. Federal formulas implicitly tax the amount of financial aid students are eligible to receive by as much as 50 cents … for each marginal dollar of income. This tax creates an incentive for college students to reduce income, though abstruse …
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ghost students. Thus, accounting for academic inactivity is essential to prevent the misreporting of dropout rates. Inactive … students are attracted to in-kind student benefits or use the university as a bridge to their professional or academic careers …. The social costs associated with such inactive students amount to 3.3% of public spending on higher education in NRW …
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(baseline: 69%) for high-school graduates who come from a state with tuition fees. Moreover, we find that students with lower … high-school grades react more strongly to tuition fees. This might have important effects on the composition of students …
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