The Centre for Education Policy (www.cep.edu.rs ), an education research centre based in Serbia, has just released a study on Financing Higher Education in South-Eastern Europe, focusing on Albania, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia. A noticeable lack of information about these countries in international research literature, coupled with a lack of information in the countries themselves, amongst policy makers and various stakeholders on financing higher education, were the primary reasons for launching the study. The key intention of the study is to provide material for widening and deepening the ongoing discussions on the financing of higher education in the region, and to offer a solid overview of the current situation to interested national and international audiences alike.
The publication has three key parts. The first is dedicated to theoretical considerations about the financing of higher education and draws extensively on literature from various disciplines (economics, political science, sociology, etc). The key intention is to offer a comprehensive “guide” through the issues surrounding the financing of higher education, from systemic, institutional and student perspectives, as well as to point out characteristic models and their (possible) effects on higher education. Secondly, the study provides a comparative analysis of HE financing systems in Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Albania and Montenegro. The comparative analysis examines the systems for financing higher education, and follows this with an analysis of these systems from an institutional, as well as a student perspective. Furthermore, an institutional case study is included to provide an insight into the financial operations of three different faculties belonging to a university in Serbia.
The study on Financing Higher Education in South-Eastern Europe can be downloaded from http://www.cep.edu.rs/eng/files/FinancingHE.pdf .
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