Public Money for Private Higher Education

Public/private partnerships: a Trojan horse for higher education?

Public and private higher education in comparative perspective*

Private higher education has been growing in South Africa, leading to intense concerns about its possible positive and negative effects in the fulfillment of broader goals. This article provides a comparative perspective, examining the experience of Latin American countries on the subject, first regarding the impact of the private sector on issues of access, equity, extension work, research and...

Getting Value for Money in Higher Education

Building Social Infrastructure through Public-private Partnerships: the Case of Student Housing in Public Higher Education

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Worldwide, Financing for Higher Education Is Increasingly Shifting From Public to Private Sources

In the richer countries, private financing generally played a smaller role. It accounted for 23 percent of all higher-education expenditures in 2003 among the wealthier nations in the study. But the percentage is growing, and those countries appear to be headed in the same direction as the rest of the world, the report says. (Even among rich countries, the percentage of private financing varies...