Article,

Public Policy for Private Higher Education: A Global Analysis

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Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 13 (4): 383--396 (2011)00015.
DOI: 10.1080/13876988.2011.583107

Abstract

Abstract Public policy for private higher education reveals many characteristics associated with decentralized, pluralist systems. Private higher education emergence often comes through initiative outside government, with government unprepared to act. Government and government policy have not usually been the central driving forces for the sector's appearance. However, government supervision is growing, commonly through delayed regulation, and indirect forms of government funding are also growing. Moreover, realities vary by world region and country and even sometimes by province or other sub-national entity. Further variation depends greatly on the type of private higher education in question. Government funding and regulation is often different depending on whether private higher education is identity based (religious or otherwise), elite/semi-elite, or demand-absorbing in respectable or shoddy ways. Additionally, whatever the present realities of public policy, the arguments for and against more government funding and regulation vary by private type.

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