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Book Financing of further education and lifelong learning

Download or read book Financing of further education and lifelong learning written by Dieter Dohmen and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Options for Financing Lifelong Learning

Download or read book Options for Financing Lifelong Learning written by Miguel Palacios and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should lifelong learning be financed? The author attempts to answer the question by creating a framework for analyzing different education financing mechanisms in light of particular characteristics of lifelong learning. The framework compares the different financing alternatives on four dimensions: (1) who ultimately pays for the education, (2) who finances its immediate costs, (3) how payments are made, and (4) who collects the payments. The author uses specific characteristics of lifelong learning to determine which among the financing alternatives are most useful. The characteristics are that the individual should decide what and where to study, carry a significant part of the financial burden, and be encouraged to continue learning through all life stages. The author analyzes the financing alternatives according to who ultimately pays for the education. Hence, the alternatives are classified either as cost-recovery or cost-subsidization alternatives. Cost-recovery alternatives include traditional loans, a graduate tax, human capital contracts, and income-contingent loans. Subsidization alternatives are those in which the state directly subsidizes institutions or in which the state gives vouchers to students. The author concludes that combining income-contingent loans and human capital contracts with vouchers is the most efficient and equitable method for financing lifelong learning. The author discusses the role of governments and multilateral organizations in improving the financing of lifelong learning. He assesses shifting toward cost-recovery alternatives, focusing on collection of payments, and aiming for the involvement of private capital as key issues that should be addressed to ensure that lifelong learning will be available for all equitably and efficiently.

Book The State of Higher Education

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness
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  • Release : 2007
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  • Pages : 56 pages

Download or read book The State of Higher Education written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Co financing Lifelong Learning Towards a Systemic Approach

Download or read book Co financing Lifelong Learning Towards a Systemic Approach written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2004-11-03 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies important economic barriers to expanded investment in lifelong learning, describes outlines financial strategies for addressing them, and reviews recent experience with various co-financing schemes. Country-by-country reports are included.

Book Paying for a College Education

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness
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  • Release : 2007
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  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book Paying for a College Education written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Financing Lifelong Learning

Download or read book Financing Lifelong Learning written by Norman David Kurland and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Financing of Adult Learning in Civil Society

Download or read book The Financing of Adult Learning in Civil Society written by Paul Bélanger and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lifelong Learning

Download or read book Lifelong Learning written by Mick Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document explores the feasibility of loans to support English adults engaging in lifelong learning. The following topics are considered: (1) the policy context (loans in higher education, individual learning accounts, and education maintenance allowances); (2) the need for financial support; (3) attitudes toward loans; (3) financial advice, financial literacy, and knowledge about the impact of debt; (4) the returns on investment in academic and vocational learning; and (5) the costs of participation. The following conclusions are reached: (1) it seems unlikely that loans will have any role in supporting students under the age of 19; (2) it is doubtful whether loans should play a significant role in supporting learners to access programs below level 3; (3) for programs at level 3 or above, the evidence about returns on investment suggests that borrowing to finance learning could be to an individual's benefit; (4) current fees in public sector part-time courses are well below the rate at which potential students seem to look to formal loan arrangements; and (5) loans would be most likely to contribute to lifelong learning in circumstances where a combination of fees and other participation costs is substantial and the program offers the prospect of high returns to students. (MN)

Book Financial Literacy and Adult Education

Download or read book Financial Literacy and Adult Education written by Karin Sprow Forté and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many adults attend financial education classes to help them make more informed financial decisions, based on their knowledge of their financial situation available cash or funds planned expenditures. This volume brings together scholars from the fields of adult education and financial literacy and covers topics that reveal the interrelatedness of the two fields. They show how concepts and knowledge about adult education can be utilized in and illuminate financial education, and they offer insights about how financial education, as an eminently practical subject, shows adults learning and putting their new knowledge into action. This is the 141st volume of this Jossey-Bass series. Noted for its depth of coverage, it explores issues of common interest to instructors, administrators, counselors, and policymakers in a broad range of adult and continuing education settings, such as colleges and universities, extension programs, businesses, libraries, and museums.

Book Economics and Finance of Life Long Learning

Download or read book Economics and Finance of Life Long Learning written by and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents one result of the international conference on "Lifelong Learning as an Affordable Investment," held December 6-8, 2000 in Ottawa, Canada. It examines the economic and financial issues that arise in implementing lifelong learning and considers how the public and private sectors are actually addressing or might address them. Information for the six-chapter book was drawn from analyses, findings, and lessons from various components of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD's) work on financing lifelong learning, as well as from material from the Organization's thematic reviews on early childhood education and care, transitions from education to work, tertiary education, and adult learning. Chapter 1 lays out the broad questions that the report is intended to address. Chapter 2 analyzes the important economic and social factors behind the drive for lifelong learning, identifying some current gaps and imbalances that these trends have caused. Chapter 3 begins to establish a framework for a funding strategy source of funds, size of the task, and rationale for government intervention. Chapter 4 examines the costs and benefits of learning at different stages of the life cycle, suggesting reforms and identifying ways in which costs may be reduced and benefits increased in the future, thereby strengthening incentives to invest in lifelong learning. Chapter 5 highlights general funding issues relevant to lifelong learning and examines possible new funding mechanisms. The final chapter examines ways in which policy thinking will need to change to meet the lifelong learning challenge. A summary of the proceedings from the conference is appended. (Contains 81 references, 25 figures, 17 tables, and 6 boxes.) (KC)

Book Financing Lifelong Learning

Download or read book Financing Lifelong Learning written by Norman David Kurland and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1977 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Costs and Financing of Adult Education and Training

Download or read book The Costs and Financing of Adult Education and Training written by Richard E. Anderson and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report on the cost and financing of adult education and continuing education in the USA - provides a methodology for cost benefit analysis and cost accounting; analyses data from schools, colleges, universitys, private sector vocational schools, tutorial services, voluntary organizations, occupational organizations, trade unions, employers and public sector sponsors.

Book Options for Financing Lifelong Learning

Download or read book Options for Financing Lifelong Learning written by Miguel Palacios and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should lifelong learning be financed? Palacios attempts to answer the question by creating a framework for analyzing different education financing mechanisms in light of particular characteristics of lifelong learning. The framework compares the different financing alternatives on four dimensions: (1) who ultimately pays for the education, (2) who finances its immediate costs, (3) how payments are made, and (4) who collects the payments. The author uses specific characteristics of lifelong learning to determine which among the financing alternatives are most useful. The characteristics are that the individual should decide what and where to study, carry a significant part of the financial burden, and be encouraged to continue learning through all life stages.Palacios analyzes the financing alternatives according to who ultimately pays for the education. Hence, the alternatives are classified either as cost-recovery or cost-subsidization alternatives. Cost-recovery alternatives include traditional loans, a graduate tax, human capital contracts, and income-contingent loans. Subsidization alternatives are those in which the state directly subsidizes institutions or in which the state gives vouchers to students. The author concludes that combining income-contingent loans and human capital contracts with vouchers is the most efficient and equitable method for financing lifelong learning.The author discusses the role of governments and multilateral organizations in improving the financing of lifelong learning. He assesses shifting toward cost-recovery alternatives, focusing on collection of payments, and aiming for the involvement of private capital as key issues that should be addressed to ensure that lifelong learning will be available for all equitably and efficiently.This paper - a product of the Education Team, Human Development Network - is part of a larger effort in the network to support the analytic work in lifelong learning in the global knowledge economy.

Book Higher Education and Lifelong Learning

Download or read book Higher Education and Lifelong Learning written by Hans Schuetze and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responding to the emerging needs of lifelong learners arguably represents one of the most fundamental challenges facing higher education systems of the countries of the developing world. At the start of the new century the concept of Lifelong Learning may indeed be counted as one of the the key organising concepts underlying public policy in many countries. The interpretation of the concept, however, remains highly contested. This timely book throws new light on the dramatic changes taking place in higher education through an exploration of the participation of "non-traditional" students in ten countries. Among others, the following areas are explored: * the complex reality behind the statistics on participation in higher education in five European countries (Austria, Germany, Ireland, Sweden and the United Kingdom), North America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand * contrasting perceptions of lifelong learning * changing patterns of participation by adults in higher education * national and institutional policies and innovations to accommodate non-traditional students and new forms of study * conclusions for policy, practice and research Higher Education for Lifelong Learners will be of interest to academics, researchers and students involved with higher education, lifelong learning, and comparative education as well as policy makers, educational managers and administrators. The contributions reveal a remarkable transformation in the student body and in the way learners pursue their studies, highlighting the international impact of increasing marketisation and differentiation on the nature of the higher education accessible to potential lifelong learners.

Book Recurrent Education Revisited

Download or read book Recurrent Education Revisited written by Hans Georg Schütze and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Participation in recurrent education and the financing of recurrent education are discussed from the experiences of countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Recurrent education encompasses lifelong learning. The influences of socioeconomic and technological change on recurrent education and employment are addressed. Two approaches to assess participation in recurrent education are considered: an individual/psychological approach and a statistical approach. A research review of participation in recurrent education covers theories of motivation and analysis of valence and expectancy in terms of adult education. Included is an outline of findings of specific studies concerning adults' motives for participation in education, impediments to recruitment, and the influence of adults' self-evaluation on participation. A model accounting for participation in adult education is presented. Power within the workplace and the economy and implications for recurrent education are also addressed. Current financing modes and the costs and benefits of recurrent education are covered. A 7-page bibliography and 13 tables are included. (SW)

Book Lifelong Learning and the University

Download or read book Lifelong Learning and the University written by Richard Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Report of the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education chaired by Sir Ron Dearing was published in July 1997. It represents the first officially sponsored systematic examination of the United Kingdom's system of higher education since the Robbins Report over 25 years ago. This book is an authoritative evaluation of the cogency, relevance and prospects for success of the Dearing vision and recommendations. Like the members of the comittee, the authors have sought to take a holistic view; to consider the underlying implications of genuine lifelong learning for the university system, and how institutions and the system will need to adjust. The outcomes are threefold: a description of what a UK higher education system that is genuinely part of a national learning society might look like, as well as the impetus this provides for radical reform; identification of features of its historical (especially recent) development, as well as wider social forces, which might inhibit or encourage its performance in this way; and an assessment of the coherence, desirability and practicality of the Dearing proposals in bringing about this end.