Resourcing Higher Education in the Flemish Community of Belgium
The report on Resourcing Higher Education in the Flemish Community of Belgium is the first in a series of publications produced by the OECD's Resourcing Higher Education Project. This project aims to develop a shared knowledge base for OECD member and partner countries on effective policies for higher education resourcing through system-specific and comparative policy analysis. The review of resourcing in the Flemish Community of Belgium has a strong focus on the funding of operating costs, teaching and research in Flemish higher education institutions. It also analyses financial support for students, system-level frameworks governing human resources policy in higher education and key trends in higher education that will impact future higher education resourcing policy. Alongside analysis and comparison of Flemish resourcing policy approaches, it provides recommendations to support future refinement of policies.
Funding for students
This chapter examines the use of public funding allocated to support students in the Flemish Community, with a focus on direct financial aid to students and on institutional funding for student services. The first section provides a brief overview of the funding mechanisms for student support that are in place in the Flemish Community. The remainder of the chapter considers how the Flemish student-funding model compares with those in other OECD jurisdictions, the impact of student aid on widening access to higher education and how the design of student aid might affect how students choose programmes and incentivise them to progress in their studies.
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