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Buying into the Meritocracy: Taiwanese Students and the Market for College Admissions Services
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Chen, Kenneth Han; Berman, Elizabeth Popp – Sociology of Education, 2022
The meritocratic ideal prescribes that universities should admit students based on academic ability and individual effort. Yet as competition for scarce slots has increased, markets for services to improve the odds of admission have expanded. We use the case of a popular online forum for elite Taiwanese students seeking graduate study in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Admission, Admission Criteria, Academic Ability
Undergraduate Orientations towards Higher Education in Germany and England: Problematizing the Notion of "Student as Customer"
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Budd, Richard – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
There is a great deal of discussion in the academic literature around how the current conditions in higher education frame students as customers. Observers are of the view that rankings and marketing, an increased focus on student satisfaction, and particularly tuition fees, encourage an instrumental, passive attitude towards a university…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Role, Decision Making, College Choice
Bittersweet Relief: Strengthening California's Tuition Recovery Fund to Better Support Students
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Zinner, Noah – Institute for College Access & Success, 2019
Students suffer extreme hardship when their postsecondary education is interrupted or significantly devalued by school closure or misconduct. Private postsecondary education in particular can cost tens of thousands of dollars in tuition, fees, equipment, and required materials. These considerable expenses constitute only part of the economic harm…
Descriptors: Tuition, State Aid, Private Education, Fees
Choices of Destination for Transnational Higher Education: "Pull" Factors in an Asia Pacific Market
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Ahmad, Syed Zamberi; Buchanan, Frederick Robert – Educational Studies, 2016
Traditional assumptions favouring native English language countries in transnational higher education (TNHE) overlook experiences of international students in new emerging Asian education hubs. Specifically, there has been limited research relating to international students' choice for studying in Malaysia. Drawing from the "push-pull"…
Descriptors: Higher Education, International Education, Foreign Students, College Choice
Students' Perception of Quality for a Business Program Delivered in Canada and China
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Hohner, Margaret; Tsigaris, Panagiotis – Journal of International Education in Business, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the beliefs of undergraduate business students studying in Canada and partners in China about the quality of the program; what they consider effective signals of quality; and their willingness to pay to improve the quality. Design/methodology/approach: A survey was designed and distributed to…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Business Education
Image and Academic Expectations of Different Levels of University Students: A South African Case
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Tait, M.; de Jager, J. W. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2009
Over the past decade the educational environment has not only become more competitive but also more commercialised. These trends have contributed to the introduction of service quality measurement at higher education institutions. Traditionally institutions assume that students have relatively homogeneous needs and expectations and the result is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Marketing, Educational Environment