Paying for higher education: What policies, in what order?

Building on earlier work (Barr 2004a), this paper discusses the role of tuition fees in paying for teaching at universities in England, though much of the analysis applies also to the rest of the UK and to OECD countries. There is no discussion of financing research. The paper addresses three sets of questions: what happened in 2006, and why (section 2); what has happened since then (section 3), and what should happen next (section 4)?[...]

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Year of publication:	2010-02-01
Authors:	Barr, Nicholas A.
Institutions:	London School of Economics and Political Science
Published in:	London School of Economics and Political Science - Publications
Subject:	Wirtschaft \| Arbeit \| Labor \| Bildung \| education \| éducation \| Forschungsfinanzierung \| Research

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1 Backdrop: The longer term during economic crisis
1.1 Core objectives
1.2 Lessons from economic theory
1.3 The economic crisis
1.4 Convergence
2 The 2006 strategy
2.1 Variable fees
2.2 Income-contingent loans
2.3 Measures to widen participation
3 From theory to evidence: What has happened?
3.1 What went well
3.2 Pressure points: Fees
3.3 Pressure points: Loans
3.4 Pressure points: Widening participation
4 What next: Reform directions
4.1 The politics of reform: Explaining the system
4.2 Reform directions: Fees
4.3 Reform directions: Loans
4.4 Reform directions: Widening participation
4.5 Why not other directions?
4.6 An important continuing role for government
5 Prescription: What reforms in what order?

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