Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Jane Knight -- Worldwide Trends in Financing Higher Education / D. Bruce Johnstone -- Challenges and Lessons from East and Southern Africa / Pundy Pillay -- Between Financial Crisis, Access, and Equity / Redouane Assad -- Access and Equity Problems in Uganda / A.B.K. Kasozi -- Finance, State Capacity, Privatization, and Transparency in Financing Southeast Asian Higher Education / Anthony R. Welch -- A Historical Approach to Privatization and Tertiary Education for All in Korea / Ki-Seok Kim -- Crossborder Higher Education in Asia-Pacific / Jane Knight -- Institutional Aid in England / Claire Callender -- The Two Decades of Privatization in Polish Higher Education / Marek Kwiek -- Using Social Inclusion Policies to Enhance Access and Equity in Brazil’s Higher Education / Clarissa Eckert Baeta Neves -- Are Current Strategies Increasing Higher Education Access for the Underprivileged in Egypt? / Iman El-Kaffass and Manar Sabry -- Expanding Postsecondary Access in Oman / David W. Chapman , Thuwayba Al-Barwani and Hana M. Ameen -- About the Authors / Jane Knight -- Index / Jane Knight.

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The demand for higher education worldwide is booming. Governments want well-educated citizens and knowledge workers but are scrambling for funds. The capacity of the public sector to provide increased and equitable access to higher education is seriously challenged. What are the on-the-ground realities of developing financial resources and policies to meet the twin goals of equity and access without jeopardizing quality? This volume provides in-depth reports from selected countries and sub-regions: Morocco, Korea, England, Uganda, Poland, Oman, East and southern Africa, Southeast Asia, Brazil, and Egypt. Each chapter is written by a seasoned educator participating in the Fulbright New Century Scholar program for 2007-2008. Given the near-universal constraints of declining resources but increasing enrollments, the authors identify common trends such as the public/private divide, the privatization of the public sector, and diversification of funding. To address these issues, the chapters examine a surprising variety of policy instruments such as means testing, targeted subsidies, cost sharing, institutional aid, student bursaries, and tax exemptions.