| Author(s): | Marcucci, P., and Usher, A. |
| Title: | 2011 Year in review: Global changes in tuition fee policies and student assistance |
| Source: | http://higheredstrategy.com/wp-content/uploads/... |
| Date: | 2012 |
| Organization: | Higher Education Strategy Associates |
| Short Description: | The pace of policy change is coming so quickly that it is difficult to keep track of all the relevant developments in different parts of the world. In this second edition of Year in Review: Tuition Fees and Student Assistance, the authors outline the major changes related to higher education affordability around the world in 2011. |
| Annotation: | All around the world, the pace of change in higher education is accelerating. In the face of continued increases in participation, demographic change and – in the west at least – profound fiscal crises, higher education institutions are increasingly being required to raise funds from students as opposed to relying on transfers from governments. Indeed, the pace of policy change is coming so quickly that it is difficult to keep track of all the relevant developments in different parts of the world.
In this second edition of Year in Review: Tuition Fees and Student Assistance, the authors outline the major changes related to higher education affordability around the world in 2011. In order to keep the sample manageable, the authors have kept their inquiries to a selection of 40 countries that collectively best represent the global situation (see box). Of these, they were able to secure
information on tuition fees in 37 countries and on financial assistance in 39. The Economist’s 2011 Big Mac Index of implied purchasing power parities are used to convert currencies to U.S. dollars for all countries with the exception of India, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, the Ukraine and Vietnam. For these countries, the official exchange rates were used. |
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