International Perspectives on Financing Higher Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Josef C. Brada

   Pages 1-5

3. Competing for Public Resources: Higher Education and Academic Research in Europe — A Cross-Sectoral Perspective

   • Marek Kwiek

   Pages 6-24

4. Restructuring of the Higher Educational System in Japan

   • Satoshi Mizobata, Masahiko Yoshii

   Pages 25-49

5. Financing Universities and a Plea for Privatization

   • Johan Gooitzen Wissema

   Pages 50-67

6. Student Loans: The Big Debate

   • Karina Ufert

   Pages 68-79

7. The 2012/13 Reforms of Student Finances and Funding in England: The Implications for the Part-Time Undergraduate Higher Education Sector

   • Claire Callender

   Pages 80-97

8. Higher Education Investment Fund: A New Approach for the Private Financing of Higher Education

   • Dieter Dohmen

   Pages 98-110

9. University-Industry and Business Cooperation: Global Imperatives and Local Challenges — An Example from Portugal

   • Tatyana Koryakina, Pedro Nuno Teixeira, Cláudia S. Sarrico

   Pages 111-134

10. Cooperation between a University and Industry — Good Practices

    • Jakub Brdulak

    Pages 135-146

11. Challenges in Research: A Strategic Approach

    • Jan Andersen

    Pages 147-172

12. Back Matter

    Pages 173-184

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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.

• Universities
• higher education
• tuition
• university-business cooperation
• research funding
• education reform
• privatization
• economics
• finance
• education
• educational system
• Europe
• funding
• labor market
• university

• Arizona State University, USA

  Josef C. Brada

• Lazarski University, Poland

  Wojciech Bienkowski

• Hitotsubashi University, Japan

  Masaaki Kuboniwa

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

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