International Perspectives on Financing Higher Education

Higher education is increasingly important to the labor market success of individuals and the prosperity of nations, yet, as this book shows, public funding for higher education is declining. It presents innovative approaches to increasing funding for universities through closer ties with business and through privatization of universities.

Jan Andersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Jakub Brdulak, Associate Professor, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland Claire Callender, Birkbeck College, UK Dieter Dohmen, Forschungsinstitut für Bildungs- und Sozialökonomie (Institute for Education and Socio-economic Research), Germany Tatyana Koryakina, Center for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES), Portugal Marek Kwiek, University of Poznan, Poland Satoshi Mizobata, Kyoto University, Japan Cláudia S. Sarrico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Pedro N. Teixeira, University of Porto, Portugal Karina Ufert, SPARK, Myanmar Johan G. (Hans) Wissema, Technology University, Netherlands Masahiko Yoshii, Kobe University, Japan