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Essa Alrashidi – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Saudi Arabia, as delineated in its Vision 2030, has made increasing the participation of the private sector the utmost priority in the development. One of the key policies that Saudi is pursuing for greater private sector involvement is the privatization of government sectors. Parallel to this, higher education is no exception to this trend. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Privatization, Higher Education, Government Role
Daniel C. Levy – Oxford University Press, 2024
"A World of Private Higher Education" is the definitive treatment of a sector accounting for a third of the world's 200 million higher education enrolment--yet remaining largely unknown even to scholars of higher education and widely mis-characterized when it is considered by stakeholders or the general public. Beyond the eye-popping…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Public Colleges, Institutional Characteristics, Diversity
Jordan Harper; John Saltmarsh – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2024
The time is ripe to reexamine the social contract between higher education and society. Historically, the social contract has promised an advancement of the public good through applied knowledge production and thoughtful research dissemination, training citizens to lead and actively participate in democracy, and supporting local and global…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Individualism, Productivity
Lau, Yui-yip; Cheung, Lok Ming Eric; Chan, Eve Man Hin; Lee, Stephanie Wing – International Journal of Educational Management, 2023
Purpose: The present study adopts the analytical framework of new managerialism (NM) to explore the progress, challenges and outlook of self-financing post-secondary institutions in Hong Kong since 2000. This study also identified issues and related managerial implications for developing this niche form of higher education in Hong Kong.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, College Administration, Educational Finance
Carvalhaes, Flavio; Medeiros, Marcelo; Tagliari Santos, Clarissa – Higher Education Policy, 2023
We look at the expansion of a higher education system through the lens of concentration in the distribution of enrollments among institutions. Using data from the Brazilian Higher Education Censuses from 2002 to 2016, we found that the diversification of segments that compose the system was associated with an increase in concentration and market…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Development, College Enrollment
Chau, Quang; Dang, Ba Lam; Nguyen, Xuan An – Higher Education Policy, 2022
Since 1988, Vietnam's private higher education sector has developed into an integral part of the higher education system. Nevertheless, we know very little about who owns private universities, or what their management models look like. Interviews with institutional leaders, policy-makers, and the analysis of archived policy documents reveal that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Colleges, College Administration, Ownership
Linda Maria Laaksonen; Sonja Kosunen – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2024
We examine private supplementary tutoring within the context of Finnish general upper secondary education. Specifically, we focus on profit-driven private preparatory course providers who cater to individual students and their families, aiming to improve applicants' prospects of gaining access to higher education. We examine this during a time…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Secondary School Students, College Admission, Educational Policy
McClure, Kevin R.; Vamosiu, Adriana C.; Titus, Marvin A.; Gray, Steffon M. – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
This study examines the relationship between cost efficiency and privatization at 163 public research institutions in the United States between 2005 and 2015. We employ a spatial autoregressive (SAR) random-effects model and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to estimate the relationship between costs and four privatization variables: auxiliary…
Descriptors: Privatization, Research Universities, Public Colleges, Costs
Kosunen, Sonja – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
External privatisation of public education has emerged in Finland in the admission to higher education. A field analysis of thematic interviews (N = 22) with powerful actors in the private educational market and middle-class young people applying for places at universities in the highly competitive disciplines of medicine and law was conducted.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Privatization, Higher Education, College Applicants
Etan Cohen – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2024
The neoliberal turn has driven attempts to marketize education, but how does marketization occur? In this article I draw on ethnographic and linguistic-ethnographic methods to investigate marketization through a microanalytic lens. My investigation focuses on a team of educational professionals, who participated in a workshop led by an…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Marketing, Discourse Analysis, Ethnography
Holligan, Chris – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2023
A common idea of research lies in association with virtues of open-mindedness, pursuit of truth and the liberation of humanity from burdens of prejudice. Aside from this "blue skies" picture of scientific research we have "practitioner research" designed by teachers to improve the quality of the education they provide in…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Professional Autonomy
Anil Balan – Cogent Education, 2023
This study discusses the impact of neoliberalism on legal education in England and Wales and the challenges and opportunities it presents. Neoliberalism is characterised by a focus on economic efficiency, competition, and individual responsibility, which can result in the commodification of education. The adoption of neoliberal policies in legal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Legal Education (Professions), Privatization
Allan Muganga; Oluwasegun Adesola Oladipo; Michael Agyemang Adarkwah – Discover Education, 2024
Globally, the trend toward privatizing higher education has been accelerating, driven by economic and policy shifts. Uganda has aligned with this movement, becoming one of the African countries implementing privatization to enhance accessibility and efficiency in its universities. However, the benefits and challenges of higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Privatization, Higher Education, Private Colleges
Gandhi, Vishakha; Ahir, Kinjal – Higher Education Forum, 2022
The trend towards privatization of higher education has been a dominant feature in India, particularly during the decade 2010-20. The main research question enquired in the current research is regarding the evolution of privatization in India during the period 2010 to 2020 and its consequences for access to higher education in India. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Foreign Countries, Access to Education
Rajesh Bhattacharya – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2024
The New Education Policy (NEP), 2020, adopted by Government of India, envisages significant and far-reaching reforms in higher education sector in India. In this article, I foreground certain peculiar features of the process of massification of higher education in India, including privatisation and fragmentation. I locate the political economy of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Higher Education