Higher Education Management and Policy

Frequency :
3 fois par an
ISSN :
1726-9822 (en ligne)
ISSN :
1682-3451 (imprimé)
DOI :
10.1787/17269822
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Previously published as Higher Education Management, Higher Education Management and Policy (HEMP) is published three times each year and is edited by the OECD’s Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education. It covers the field through articles and reports on such issues as quality assurance, human resources, funding, and internationalisation. It also is a source of information on activities and events organised by OECD’s IMHE Programme.

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Auteur(s):
David Palfreyman
Date de publication
22 jui 2002
Pages
16
Bibliographic information
N°:
16,
Volume:
14,
Numéro:
2
Pages
99–105
DOI
10.1787/hemp-v14-art16-en

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As the Welsh Assembly follows Scotland in reinstating (to some degree) student means-tested grants, it is timely to consider Nicholas Barr, The Welfare State as Piggy Bank. Barr looks at social insurance and pensions before tackling education, where he argues for State provision in relation to schools but Market provision for tertiary education: students are "impressively well-informed – a savvy, streetwise consumer group" and hence "students are more capable than central planners of making choices that conform with their own needs and those of the economy"...

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