Financing higher education: Lessons from the UK debate

Political Quarterly

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 371-381

  Barr, Nicholas ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0042730215     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-923x.00546     Document Type: Review

References (15)

1. Department for Education and Skills, The Future of Higher Education, Cm 5735, London, The Stationery Office, 2003. Available at http://www.dfes.gov.uk/highereducation/hestrategy/.
2. On the underlying economic theory, see Nicholas Barr, The Welfare State as Piggy Bank: Information, Risk, Uncertainty, and the Role of the State, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001, chs 10-12. For a broader defence of the welfare state in terms of the same body of theory, see Nicholas Barr, The Economics of the Welfare State, 3rd edn, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998.
3. On the underlying economic theory, see Nicholas Barr, The Welfare State as Piggy Bank: Information, Risk, Uncertainty, and the Role of the State, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001, chs 10-12. For a broader defence of the welfare state in terms of the same body of theory, see Nicholas Barr, The Economics of the Welfare State, 3rd edn, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998.
4. Australia and New Zealand already have such a system; for discussion of higher education finance in other countries, see Barr, The Welfare State as Piggy Bank, ch. 13.
5. See Nicholas Barr, 'Making Universities Universal', Financial Times, 22 November 2002, p. 21, and, for fuller discussion, Nicholas Barr, 'Funding Higher Education: Policies for Access and Quality', House of Commons, Education and Skills Committee, Post-16 Student Support, Sixth Report of Session 2001-2002, HC445, London, Stationery Office, 2002, pp. Ev 19-35, and supplementary memoranda, ibid., pp. Ev 45-7, Ev 130-3, and Ev 133-4.
6. See Nicholas Barr, 'Making Universities Universal', Financial Times, 22 November 2002, p. 21, and, for fuller discussion, Nicholas Barr, 'Funding Higher Education: Policies for Access and Quality', House of Commons, Education and Skills Committee, Post-16 Student Support, Sixth Report of Session 2001-2002, HC445, London, Stationery Office, 2002, pp. Ev 19-35, and supplementary memoranda, ibid., pp. Ev 45-7, Ev 130-3, and Ev 133-4.
7. See Nicholas Barr, 'Making Universities Universal', Financial Times, 22 November 2002, p. 21, and, for fuller discussion, Nicholas Barr, 'Funding Higher Education: Policies for Access and Quality', House of Commons, Education and Skills Committee, Post-16 Student Support, Sixth Report of Session 2001-2002, HC445, London, Stationery Office, 2002, pp. Ev 19-35, and supplementary memoranda, ibid., pp. Ev 45-7, Ev 130-3, and Ev 133-4.
8. See Polly Toynbee, 'Help Toddlers, and then Let Students Pay their Own Way', Guardian, 22 January 2003.
9. See Widening Participation in Higher Education, London, Department for Education and Skills, 2003.
10. Nicholas Barr and lain Crawford, 'The Dearing Report and the Government's Response: A Critique', Political Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 1, January 1998, pp. 72-84; on the specific prediction, see p. 80.
11. Ibid., p. 78.
12. For assessment of the Dearing Report and the government's response, see ibid.
13. Students and parents have legitimate worries, but mostly exaggerated or misplaced - see Barr 2003, paras 121-30.
14. For fuller discussion see ibid., paras 104-20.
15. Ibid., paras. 107-19.