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FINANCING THE STUDENTS‘ FUTURE? Rok Primožič Executive Committee EUA Funding Forum Salzburg, 12th of June 2012
The outline • Financing the Students‘ Future • Bologna With Students Eyes 2012
FINST – FINancing the STudents‘ Future: What is it all about?
“FinST” is a comprehensive research exercise on the landscape of HE funding systems in Europe and their fitness for purpose, in combination with the effects of the student unions’ policies on funding.
1. Mapping • Themes selected ▫ ▫ ▫ ▫
National HE funding systems Public funding of students Student income & expenditure Impacts & outcomes
• Key sources: ▫ OECD Education At a Glance 2010 ▫ Eurostat/EUROSTUDENT: The Bologna Process and in Higher Education in Europe: key indicators on the social dimension and mobility. ▫ EUROSTUDENT project data
Hypothesis 1 Most of the countries observed are using cost sharing to cover increasing higher educational costs.
• cost sharing - the combined contribution from public and private sources in the financing of higher education
Hypothesis 2 “Higher education systems that have higher tuition fees also have higher public student support level.”
HEI's income of private sources (households & other private) as a percentage of all public and private sources
Source: Eurostat. Bologna process in HE, Study Framework, Statistical Table B.2a,b
Public financial aid as grants to tertiary students as a percentage of public expenditure on tertiary education
Source: Eurostat. Bologna process in HE, Study Framework, Statistical Table B.2c
Hypothesis 3 “In most of the countries observed the public support to students is higher than student´s private contribution to HEI´s.”
Contribution to student´s income by state sources as percentage of student´s total income
Student´s expenditure on tuition and other fees as a percentage of total main expenditure components
Hypothesis 4 “In most of the countries observed, levels of public investment correlate between levels of participation”
Conclusions? • Cost-sharing is a reality for most of the countries • Higher tuition fees don‘t necessarily mean higher level of public support • There is correlation between level of public investement in HE and participation
More recent development
Access and quality of services
Questions, challenges … • Increasing cost-sharing – where does it stop (state support is also not increasing)? • Higher education should be socially inclusive and reflective of wider society – are we on the right way? • What to do with massification (who should we support)?
Thank you!
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