The impact of funding policies on higher education in Jamaica

Comparative Education

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 215-227

  Nkrumah Young, Kofi K ^a   Huisman, Jeroen ^b   Powell, Philip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Jamaica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION POLICY; EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; GOVERNMENT; HIGHER EDUCATION; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; JAMAICA;

EID: 42649140875     PISSN: 03050068     EISSN: 13600486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03050060802041209     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Alexander, N., Morgan, E. and Stone, F. (1967) A review of certain aspects of the university's operation, University of the West Indies, Kingston
2. Bacchus, K. and Brock, C. (1987) The challenge of scale: Educational development in the small states of the commonwealth, Commonwealth Secretariat, London
3. Bray, M. and Kwo, O. (2003) Higher education in small territories: Political transition and development in Macau. Higher Education Policy, 16:4, pp. 413-432.
4. Bray, M. and Packer, S. (1993) Education in small states: Concepts, challenges and strategies, Pergamon Press, Oxford
5. Brock, C. (1988) Beyond the fringe? Small states and the provision of education. Comparative Education, 24:2, pp. 167-179.
6. Caston, G. (1993) Higher education in the South Pacific: A political economy. Comparative Education, 29:3, pp. 321-332.
7. Crocombe, R. and Crocombe, M. T. (1993) Scale, sovereignty, wealth and enterprise: Social and educational comparisons between the Cook Islands and the Solomon Islands. Comparative Education, 29:3, pp. 307-319.
8. Crossley, M. and Holmes, K. (2001) Challenges for educational research: International development, partnerships and capacity building in small states. Oxford Review of Education, 27:3, pp. 395-409.
9. Crossley, M. and Louisy, P. (1994) The changing role of the small state in higher education: A comparison of national and regional initiatives in the Caribbean and the South Pacific. Compare, 24:2, pp. 109-125.
10. Davis, R. (1994) A cost recovery programme for tertiary education, Ministry of Education Youth and Culture, Kingston
11. DeHayes Jr, D. W. and Lovrinic, J. G. (1994) Activity-based costing model for assessing economic performance. New Directions for Institutional Research, pp. 81-93.
12. Ewell, P. (1999) Linking performance measures to resource allocation: Exploring unmapped terrain. Quality in Higher Education, 5:3, pp. 275-293.
13. Gradstein, M. (2003) The political economy of spending on education, inequality and growth, World Bank, Washington, DC
14. Heller, D. E. (1999) The effects of tuition and state financial aid on public college enrollment. Review of Higher Education, 23:1, pp. 65-89.
15. (2005) On cooperation and competition II. Institutional responses to internationalisation, Europeanisation and globalisation, Lemmens, Bonn
16. James, V. and Williams, C. (2004) Financing higher education: Policy choices for Jamaica. Paper presented at. the Future of Higher Education in Jamaica conference Kingston, Jamaica
17. Johnstone, D. B. (2004) Cost-sharing and equity in higher education: Implications of income contingent loans. Markets in higher education. Rhetoric or reality?, pp. 37-59. Kluwer, Dordrecht
18. Jongbloed, B. and Vossensteyn, H. (2001) Keeping up performances: An international survey of performance-based funding in higher education. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 23:2, pp. 127-145.
19. Jongbloed, B., Salerno, C., Huisman, J. and Vossensteyn, H. (2005) Research prestatiemeting: Een internationale vergelijking, Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, The Hague
20. Lasher, W. F. and Sullivan, C. A. (2004) Follow the money: The changing world of budgeting in higher education. Higher education: Handbook of theory and research, pp. 197-240. Springer, Dordrecht
21. Ministry of Finance (1963) Financing the UWI, Gordon House, Kingston
22. Orr, D. (2005) Can performance-based funding and quality assurance solve the state vs market conundrum?. Higher Education Policy, 18:1, pp. 31-50.
23. Sherlock, P. (1991) Restructuring tertiary education in Jamaica: Principles and proposals, Ministry of Education Youth and Culture, Kingston
24. Swail, W. S. and Heller, D. E. (2004) Changes in tuition policies. Natural policy experiments in five countries, Millennium Scholarship Foundation, Montreal, Canada
25. Vossensteyn, H. (2005) Perceptions of student price-responsiveness, Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies, Enschede
26. World Bank (1996) Staff appraisal report: Jamaica student loan project, World Bank, Washington, DC
27. Ziderman, A. and Albrecht, D. (1995) Financing universities in developing countries, Falmer, London