The Budget Funding of the Public Higher Education in Some European Countries

This comparative study concerning public superior education system finance has been accomplished in order to highlight the main public superior education system financing mechanisms used in a few European countries considering a financing future model projection, able to make the public financing allocation for superior educational system more and more efficient. In the past, in Europe, the financing mechanisms had been involving negotiations between the public or private superior education institutions on the allocated funds, their calculation on the real costs supported by institutions and grants awarded, divided on budgetary categories. Nowadays, the public superior educational system financing mechanisms had suffered important kind of changes, if we consider the granted sums calculation formulas, as well as the measures for correlation of public financing quantum with the financed university performance. Each financing model presents strong points as well as weak ones, as there isn’t any perfect financing model which can be adapted to any country, because the choosing of the model usually implies a compromise between the different objectives that have to be reached by the higher education. Owed to public superior educational system financing system analysis from a few European countries (Romania, Great Britain, France, Denmark,), we may conclude that a perfect adaptable financing system for each European country doesn’t exist; the adaptability degree of these mechanisms depends on a different factors number, of a historic, social, legal, political and economical nature.