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ERIC Number: EJ485664
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1993
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ISSN: ISSN-0305-4985
A Degree of Waste: The Economic Benefits of Educational Expansion.
Murphy, James
Oxford Review of Education, v19 n1 p9-31 1993
Considers the view, long fashionable in academic and political circles, that sees the expansion of higher education as benefiting the nation economically. Argues that higher education has expanded well beyond that threshold and would be regarded better as a form of consumption. (CFR)
Descriptors: Economic Change, Economic Development, Economic Factors, Educational Finance, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, Foreign Countries, Government School Relationship, Higher Education, National Programs, Politics of Education, Public Policy, Role of Education
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles
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Audience: Policymakers; Researchers; Administrators; Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers: Germany; Japan; United Kingdom; United States