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Pensions: Challenges and Choices: What next?

Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

The analysis in the Report of the Pensions Commission (UK Pensions Commission2004, henceforth referred to as the Report), is sound, the data a wonderful treasure trove, thepresentation particularly clear, and the diagnosis correct. This comment takes the Report’sanalysis as given, and sets out...

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

Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

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...

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Financing higher education: Comparing the options

Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

This paper analyses three options for financing higher education:• Tax funding, as proposed by the Liberal Democrats … proposed in the White Paper on highereducation (Department of Education and Skills, 2003).[...] …

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Financing higher education in the UK: The 2003 White Paper

Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

,b,c,d,e; Crawford, 2002) – offers a strongly supportive assessmentof the strategy in the White Paper (Department for Education and …

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Funding higher education: policies for access and quality

Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science

This paper puts forward a strategy for achieving two objectives in higher education –improved access and increased …

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Paying for Learning

Barr, Nicholas A.; Falkingham, Jane - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1993

Both the quantity and quality of education and training in Britain are being comparedunfavourably with arrangements in … presumption thatimprovements in the quality and quantity of education and training will not primarily befinanced by increased … schemes with the current government scheme for higher education, and alsoinvestigates the long-run yield of a graduate tax and …

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Making universities UNIVERSAL

Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

How do you fund university education? In the UK, the governmentplans to introduce variable fees from 2006, to be paid …

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Why nobody need lose in this system

Barr, Nicholas A.; Crawford, Iain - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

Rather than being a handicap, the proposals to introduce top-up fees will prove aboon to students.[...]

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A good deal for all the family

Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

Universities, parents and poorer students will allbenefit under the Government’s plans for top-upfees.[...]

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Can't pay, won't pay

Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

How best to widen university access - by abolishing fees, as the Tories suggest, or byenhancing student loans, as the government plans?[...]

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