International Journal of Educational Development
January 2018 Volume 58, Number 1
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 13
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Global higher education learning outcomes and financial trends: Comparative and innovative approaches
W. James Jacob & Veysel Gokbel
The cost of higher education continues to escalate at an alarming rate. Public and private funding sources from around the world are increasingly under pressure to reduce allocations toward higher ... More
pp. 5-17
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Reforming higher education from within: Lessons learned from other mature sectors of the economy
Stewart E. Sutin
Transformative organizations are innovative, adaptable, contextually aware, and cross the divide between leaders and their employees to provide products and services at prices that appeal to their ... More
pp. 18-25
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Global trends in higher education financing: The United Kingdom
Simon Marginson
Over the last 40 years, UK higher education has moved from a publicly funded system to a mixed publicly/privately funded system regulated as a tuition loans-based consumer market, in which both the... More
pp. 26-36
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Recent changes of financing higher education in Germany and their intended and unintended consequences
Ulrich Teichler
Since the late 1990s, substantial changes of financing higher education occurred in Germany. The total amount of public funding kept pace with inflation and growing student enrolment, whereby the... More
pp. 37-46
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Financing trends in Southeast Asia and Oceania: Meeting the demands of regional higher education growth
W. James Jacob, University of Pittsburgh, United States; Deane Neubauer, East-West Center and University of Hawai‘i, United States; Huiyuan Ye, University of Pittsburgh, United States
Southeast Asia and Oceania present daunting geographic barriers for higher education delivery, and include some of the most remote and rural locations on earth. These factors create unique access, ... More
pp. 47-63
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Changes in Chinese higher education: Financial trends in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
W. James Jacob, University of Pittsburgh, United States; Ka Ho Mok, Lingnan University, Hong Kong; Sheng Yao Cheng, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan; Weiyan Xiong, University of Pittsburgh, United States
The cost of higher education (HE) continues to grow at an unsustainable rate in many country contexts, including in East Asia. With recent and projected HE growth in this region, HE administrators ... More
pp. 64-85
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Access, equity and quality trends in Latin America’s public universities
Gustavo E. Fischman & Molly Ott, Arizona State University, United States
The purpose of this essay is to describe key dimensions of contemporary Latin American Public Universities (LAPUs), especially pertaining to access, equity, and quality. Analyses of LAPUs must be... More
pp. 86-94
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Community engagement in Indian higher education: Financial and partnership trends
Keith J. Roberts
Because of the size and complexity of higher education in India, there are a multitude of strategies for addressing financial partnerships and trends. India, as the world's largest democracy and a ... More
pp. 95-105
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Higher education financing in Japan: Trends and challenges
Futao Huang
The purpose of this study is to address the basic model of Japanese higher education financing mechanisms, the main changes that have occurred in these mechanisms, and their influences on higher... More
pp. 106-115
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Lessons learned from financing universal higher education in Korea
Byoungjoo Kim, College of Education; Namgi Park, Gwangju National Univ. of Education
Since 2005, the total expenditure for Korean higher education has increased. However, the financial support is still anemic compared to financial support for K-12 education. This paper first... More
pp. 116-127
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Innovative higher education learning outcomes and financing trends in Israel
Gury Zilkha
Many changes in Israeli higher education have occurred during the last two decades as the country evolved from having less than 20 higher education institutions to having more than 65 institutions.... More
pp. 128-136
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Place-based scholarships: Catalysts for systems reform to improve postsecondary attainment
Jennifer Iriti, Lindsay C. Page & William E. Bickel
Concerns about the rate of postsecondary attainment in the US compared to the projected education requirements of future jobs has prompted a range of policy and practice interventions aimed at... More
pp. 137-148
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Improving educational and financial effectiveness through innovation: A case study of Southern New Hampshire University’s College for America
Sarah E.W. Hansen
This article explores an innovative student-centric learning model to more fully understand the compatibility of education quality improvement and sustainability. More specifically, this paper... More
pp. 149-158