Funding in Higher Education and Economic Growth in France and the United Kingdom, 1921-2003

Autor/in	Carpentier, Vincent
Titel	Funding in Higher Education and Economic Growth in France and the United Kingdom, 1921-2003
Quelle	In: Higher Education Management and Policy, 18 (2006) 3, S.1-22 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1682-3451
DOI	10.1787/hemp-v18-art16-en
Schlagwörter	Economic Progress; Expenditure per Student; Higher Education; Federal Aid; Foreign Countries; Private Financial Support; Educational Policy; Tuition; Educational History; Outcomes of Education; Role of Education; Comparative Analysis; Public Policy; Educational Finance; Financial Policy; Paying for College; Student Costs; Access to Education; France; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Economic growth; Wirtschaftswachstum; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ausland; Private Investition; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Unterweisung; Unterricht; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Bildungsauftrag; Öffentliche Ordnung; Bildungsfonds; Fiscal policy; Finanzpolitik; Studienfinanzierung; Studienkosten; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Frankreich; Großbritannien
Abstract	The UK 2004 Higher Education Act generated important debates about the relationships between higher education (HE), economic growth and social progress. The range of positions expressed in relation to the increase of annual tuition fees raises crucial questions about the public and private funding of higher education and its individual and social economic benefits. Such controversies have a strong resonance in France where discussion about HE underfunding has already emerged. This article seeks to inform these current debates by combining economic and historical perspectives within a quantitative approach. The analysis of new historical series on funding and development of UK universities since the 1920s and the comparison with similar data for France has put into evidence a long-term link between HE funding and economic fluctuations. In both countries, the expansion in university resources was not linear and may be related to the impact of long economic cycles on public funding. Moreover, in the UK case, private funding periodically increased in order to replace diminishing public funding, rather than taking the form of additional resources. In consequence, private funds did not provide an overall rise in the universities' income. The considerable fluctuations of funding, combined with a more consistent growth of enrolment, led to a recurrent mismatch between resources for and access to higher education. This can explain the wide fluctuations of resources per student over the period and the current underfunding situation. Such historical trends question whether, in the future, increased fees will be a substitute for public spending. Or will variable fees be combined with even greater increases in public funding as part of a national project to support HE students from all social backgrounds and to boost expenditure per student? (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10