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Who Really Bears the Cost of Education? How the Burden of Education Expenditure Shifts from the Public to the Private Sector. Education Indicators in Focus. No. 56
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OECD Publishing, 2017
Despite the obvious benefits derived from education, governments face difficult trade-offs when balancing the share of public and private contributions to education. Understanding how private expenditure is sourced, through public transfers or through private funds, can make a difference in enabling access to education and provide insights into…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Expenditure per Student, Access to Education, Private Sector
Career Aspirations: mba.com Prospective Students Survey 2019. Market Intelligence
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Graduate Management Admission Council, 2019
Each month, the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) surveys a random sample of individuals who three months prior registered on mba.com--the GMAC™ website for prospective graduate business students. Their survey responses provide an inside look into the decision-making process of people currently considering applying to a graduate…
Descriptors: Occupational Aspiration, Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Business Administration Education
Higher Education and the State: Changing Relationships in Europe and East Asia. Oxford Studies in Comparative Education
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Goodman, Roger, Ed.; Kariya, Takehiko, Ed.; Taylor, John, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2013
The relationship between the state and higher education institutions has always been a complex one. The "state" itself in this context is a heterogeneous mix of elite people--bureaucrats, politicians, committees of co-opted academics and business leader--and it increasingly faces pressures from diverse stakeholders, including students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Public Sector, Higher Education
Neo-Liberal "Governmentality" in the English and Japanese Higher Education Systems
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Yokoyama, Keiko – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2008
The purpose of this paper is to identify common patterns in central authorities' steering of universities and the institutional power in neo-liberal higher education regimes. The paper examines the regulatory mechanisms of England and Japan through Foucault's idea of "governmentality" and utilises the concept of autonomy to identify the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Incentives, Institutional Autonomy, Foreign Countries
Digital Broadband Content: Public Sector Information. OECD Digital Economy Papers, No. 112
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OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2006
Public bodies hold a range of information and content ranging from demographic, economic and meteorological data to art works, historical documents and books. Given the availability of information and communication technologies (ICTs) public sector information can play an important role in producing innovative value-added services and goods.…
Descriptors: Public Sector, Information Sources, Access to Information, Information Utilization
Business Involvement in Education: Literature Review.
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Nichols Education Consulting Group, Edmonton (Alberta). – 1996
The literature on business involvement in education in Canada, the United States, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, the United Kingdom, and other European countries was reviewed. Special attention was paid to the following topics: workplace trends/changes; skill requirements/deficits; youth employment/unemployment; integration versus…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Apprenticeships, Career Guidance, Comparative Analysis