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Category: Worldwide PSE

The Dog That Didn’t Bark

For the last few weeks, I’ve been giving you little snippets from World Higher Education: Institutions, Students and Funding.  Today, I want to address a topic that came up in the document’s webinar launch (available at the University World News’ YouTube channel). It’s something I haven’t really been able to talk about because it’s something that didn’t appear in the report for the simple reason that it didn’t happen. It is, to some extent, the dog that didn’t bark.  But

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April 4, 2022 No Comments

World Higher Education: Institutions, Students and Funding

Good morning, all.  Today – FINALLY – marks the release of World Higher Education: Institutions, Students, Funding, which I have been co-authoring with HESA’s Jonathan Williams for the better part of three years now (Jonathan did most of the heavy lifting).  You can find the full report, as well as national profiles for each of the 56 countries included in the analysis, right here.  If you are a regular reader, you know a lot of the narratives.  In previous blog

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March 31, 2022 No Comments

Student Financial Aid Regimes

By Alex Usher and Jonathan Williams Last week, we presented you with an overview of tuition fee regimes around the world.  Not unreasonably, a few of you asked “what about student aid?  Doesn’t that matter?”.  Of course it does!  And we have you covered. So first of all, let’s talk about what we mean by student aid.  Broadly speaking, it comes in three forms: loans, grants, and “indirect aid”.  Loans are simple enough.  Grants are trickier, because while they usually

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March 23, 2022 No Comments

Higher Education Institutions Worldwide

By Alex Usher and Jonathan Williams There are lots of estimates of higher education students around the world, which vary based on whether they include students in more vocational programs (the global total is somewhere in the high 200 millions if you do, and low 200 millions if you don’t).  But one thing you won’t see very often is an estimate of the number of higher education institutions.  And the reason for that is that pretty simple: big international data

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March 22, 2022 1 Comment

Classifying Tuition Fee Regimes

By Alex Usher and Jonathan Williams In the global discussion about tuition fees and cost-sharing, the most common – and the most simplistic – way to divide up countries is into countries which are “free tuition” and those which are not.  But it’s not actually anywhere near that simple.  When it comes to student fees, national systems vary along four axes.  First, the gross enrolment/participation rate; second the share of students attending public higher education institutions (worldwide, roughly a third

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March 16, 2022 2 Comments

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