Higher Education Funding

Introduction 1.1 Background issues 1.2 Blind alleys 2 Lessons from economic theory 2.1 Lesson 1: The days of central planning have gone 2.2 Lesson 2: Graduates should share in the costs of higher education 2.3 Lesson 3: Well-designed student loans have core characteristics 2.4 The balance between market and state 2.5 A general funding strategy 3 Lessons from country experience 3.1 Financing universities: lessons about fees 3.