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Helsinger, Abigail; Hicks, Nytasia; Cummins, Phyllis; Yamashita, Takashi – Grantee Submission, 2020
Participation in adult education and training opportunities over the entire life-course is necessary in international and technologically advanced economies. However, there is a dearth of literature on equitable access to lifelong education opportunities, particularly for at risk and underserved adults in the labor force. Furthermore,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Lifelong Learning, Educational Finance, Cross Cultural Studies
Funk, Robert L. – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic brings to the fore strengths and weaknesses in many public policies, including higher education. There are at least three separate but related areas where institutions of higher learning have been stressed by COVID-19: financing, issues related to the logistics of learning, and inequality. These problems are especially…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
State Financing for Public Community Colleges: A Comparative Study of Fiscal Capacity and Tax Effort
Koh, Jonathan; Katsinas, Stephen G.; Bray, Nathaniel J. – Journal of Education Finance, 2019
This study examines patterns of state financing in public community colleges. The focus of the study is to not only show the disparities that exist across the 50 states in terms of fiscal capacity to provide funding for community colleges, but also in the effort that is exerted to fund community colleges. The study combines the Bureau of Economic…
Descriptors: State Aid, Educational Finance, Community Colleges, Fiscal Capacity
Acquah, Alfred – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2021
Over the years, there has been a tremendous increase in enrollment in higher education as well as the cost of attendance. This article comparatively analyzes the higher education finance between the United States of America (U.S.A.) and Ghana, taking into consideration the goals of higher education, enrollment and expenditure, and the various…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Neoliberalism, College Attendance, Higher Education
Schleicher, Andreas – OECD Publishing, 2020
This brochure focuses on a selection of indicators from "Education at a Glance," selected for their particular relevance in the current context. Their analysis enables the understanding of countries' response and potential impact from the COVID-19 containment measures. The following topics are discussed: (1) the impact of the crisis on…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change, Comparative Education
Larkin, Charles; Corbet, Shaen – Journal of Education Finance, 2021
This paper presents an exploratory analysis of the funding mechanisms for higher education across sixteen countries which builds upon existing work on educational institutions, educational outcomes, and welfare regimes. We focus upon the current financing dilemma within the Irish higher education system, seeking potential solutions within an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Universities, Income Contingent Loans
Zgaga, Pavel, Ed.; Teichler, Ulrich, Ed.; Schuetze, Hans G., Ed.; Wolter, Andrä, Ed. – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2019
The central focus of this book is the concept of higher education reform in the light of an international and global comparative perspective. After decades of far-reaching reform, higher education around the world has profoundly changed and now has to face the challenges of the present. This volume takes a close look at these changes, the drivers…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Change Strategies, Instruction
Haussen, Tina; Uebelmesser, Silke – Education Economics, 2016
In higher education systems that are partly tax funded, a country might not be willing to subsidize the education of international students who might leave after graduation. This paper analyzes how student migration affects governmental decisions regarding the private funding share of higher education for 22 OECD countries for the period of…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Higher Education, Student Mobility, College Graduates
Cummins, Phyllis A.; Harrington, A. Katherine; Yamashita, Takashi – Adult Learning, 2022
Access to lifelong learning opportunities has long been discussed in terms of the economic benefits conferred by access to and engagement in further education by members of the labor force, particularly within the global knowledge economy. However, equitable access to lifelong education opportunities, particularly for low-skilled adults in the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Lifelong Learning, Educational Finance, Financial Support
Cummins, Phyllis A.; Harrington, A. Katherine; Yamashita, Takashi – Grantee Submission, 2021
Access to lifelong learning opportunities has long been discussed in terms of the economic benefits conferred by access to and engagement in further education by members of the labor force, particularly within the global knowledge economy. However, equitable access to lifelong education opportunities, particularly for low-skilled adults in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Lifelong Learning, Financial Support, Educational Vouchers
Cornelius J. Carroll – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In the United States today, there exists a very serious conversation over financial aid at all levels of education. The conversation going on nationally permeates every level of society: politics, the nuclear family, and the economy. Further, at this point in our national history, we have several generation gaps with respect to education and its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Financial Aid, Social Systems, College Students
Hustedt, Jason T.; Barnett, W. Steven – Educational Policy, 2011
The landscape of financing early childhood education in the U.S. is complex. Programs run the gamut from tuition-supported private centers to public programs supported by federal, state, or local funds. Different funding streams are poorly coordinated. The federal government funds several major targeted programs that are available only to specific…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Educational Finance, Access to Education
Baime, David; Baum, Sandy – Urban Institute, 2016
The national commitment to increasing postsecondary educational attainment, combined with growing economic anxiety, has made community colleges the focus of many federal and state policy initiatives. There is good reason for this: by virtue of their nature and reach, community colleges--public institutions of higher education that predominantly…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Institutional Mission, Educational Objectives, Educational Finance
Wei, Christina Chang – National Center for Education Statistics, 2010
In 2007-08, approximately 21 million students were enrolled in undergraduate postsecondary education in the United States. These Web Tables provide a comprehensive source of information on financial aid that was awarded to undergraduate students during the 2007-08 academic year. Included are estimates of tuition, price of attendance, and financial…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Educational Finance, Tuition, Student Financial Aid
Progressive Educational Actions in a Post-Soviet Republic: Meaningful Collaborations and Empowerment
Harnisch, Delywn L.; Guetterman, Timothy C.; Samofalova, Olga; Kussis, Yelena – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2013
As the last Soviet republic to become an independent nation, Kazakhstan has worked diligently to transform and develop its educational system including systemic changes related to decentralization, financing changes, and the shift to a credit system. A professional health sciences education workshop delivered in Kazakhstan exemplifies progressive…
Descriptors: Progressive Education, Foreign Countries, Workshops, Social Change