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Higher Education and the Spectre of Variable Fees: Public Policy and Institutional Responses in the United States and the United Kingdom

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  • David Ward
  • John Aubrey Douglass

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As part of a larger effort to fund public universities, variable fees at the graduate and undergraduate levels are a topic of discussion in the United States and increasingly throughout the European Union. This essay describes the relatively new shift to have students pay for a significant portion of their university education, emerging fee structures, and discusses the possible policy implications of variable fee structures. We argue that emerging cost-sharing fee policy in the United States and in England is being pursued incrementally, without an adequate conceptual model for long-term funding of universities and their possible impact on students and academic programs.

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  • David Ward & John Aubrey Douglass, 2006. "Higher Education and the Spectre of Variable Fees: Public Policy and Institutional Responses in the United States and the United Kingdom," Higher Education Management and Policy, OECD Publishing, vol. 18(1), pages 1-28.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:edukaa:5l9x1v2dsr7j
    DOI: 10.1787/hemp-v18-art1-en
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    1. Christine Musselin, 2011. "Convergences and Divergences in Steering Higher Education Systems," Chapters, in: Roger King & Simon Marginson & Rajani Naidoo (ed.), Handbook on Globalization and Higher Education, chapter 26, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    2. Douglass, John Aubrey & Keeling, Ruth, 2008. "The Big Curve: Trends in University Fees and Financing in the EU and US," University of California at Berkeley, Center for Studies in Higher Education qt6sr3n6km, Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley.

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