| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 281 pages) : illustrations |
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Issues and Overview / Shiro Armstrong and Aaron Batten -- Part I. Education and Development: The role of higher education. Education and Development: The role of higher education / Lawrence Summers -- Financing Higher Education: Lessons from economic theory and operational experience / Nicholas Barr -- Finance, State Capacity, Privatisation and Transparency in South-East Asian Higher Education / Anthony R. Welch -- Part II. Experience in Developed Economies. The rationale for, and experience with, income-contingent loans / Bruce Chapman -- The Australian National University Higher Education Policies and Development: Approaches to funding higher education in Japan / Motohisa Kaneko -- Part III. Experience in East Asia. Student Loan Reform in China: Problems and challenges / Wei Jianguo and Wang Rong -- Recent Developments in Higher Education in Indonesia: Issues and challenges / Teguh Yudo Wicaksono and Deni Friawan -- Strategies for Financing Higher Education: The case of Thailand / Somkiat Tangkitvanich and Areeya Manasboonphempool -- Thailand's Student Loans Fund: An analysis of interest rate subsidies and repayment hardships / Piruna Polsiri, Rangsit Sarachitti and Thitima Sitthipongpanich -- Income-Contingent Student Loans for Thailand: Alternatives compared / Bruce Chapman and Kiatanantha Lounkaew |
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pt. I. Education and development : the role of higher education -- pt. II. Experience in developed economies -- pt. III. Experience in East Asia |
| Summary |
"This volume addresses important issues to do with access to higher education and different models of its financing in the East Asia region. It is enriched by diverse perspectives from vastly different starting points and by the historical and institutional settings in the region. The issues are set out in the context of the value of higher education in economic development and how it contributes to the capacities to adopt and adapt to new technologies and undertake institutional innovation."--Publisher's description |
| Analysis |
east asia |
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economic development |
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costs |
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education |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed July 16, 2013) |
| Subject |
Education, Higher -- Economic aspects -- East Asia
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Education, Higher -- East Asia -- Costs
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Economic development -- Effect of education on.
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Economics, finance, business and management.
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Economics.
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Education.
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Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
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EDUCATION -- Finance.
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Economic development -- Effect of education on.
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Education, Higher -- Costs.
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Education, Higher -- Economic aspects.
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East Asia.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Armstrong, Shiro
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Chapman, B. J. (Bruce J.)
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ANU E Press.
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| ISBN |
9781921666636 |
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1921666633 |
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1921666625 |
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9781921666629 |
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