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Akers, Beth – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2020
Over the last two decades, prices in higher education have grown more quickly than prices in almost any other sector of the economy. Tuition inflation has been extensively examined. The examinations, however, have focused on a narrow set of explanations, none of which has revealed obvious opportunities for policy interventions that would slow this…
Descriptors: Tuition, Costs, Value Judgment, Competition
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Dill, David D.; Beerkens, Maarja – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2013
The new demands of mass systems of higher education and the emerging environment of global academic competition are altering the traditional institutions for assuring academic standards in universities. As a consequence many nations are experimenting with new instruments for academic quality assurance. Contemporary government control of academic…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Academic Standards, Quality Control, Competition
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Jensen, Knud; Michel-Schertges, Dirk – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2010
This article presents aspects of the regulatory reform work in public sectors was guided by the OECD in the 1990's manifested in GATS ( 1995 ) strategically planned by and through the Bologna Process and eagerly elaborated by boards and power holders of universities and university colleges. The tendency is privatisation which has as a consequence…
Descriptors: Free Enterprise System, State Regulation, Educational Finance, Foreign Countries