Paying for university: The impact of increasing costs on student employment, debt and satisfaction

National Institute Economic Review

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 106-117

  Metcalf, Hilary ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

debt; disabled people; disadvantage; employment; equality; ethnicity; fees; finance; funding; gender; Higher education; policy; satisfaction; social class; student; term time working; top up fees; university

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992856510     PISSN: 00279501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0027950105052662     Document Type: Article

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