Recent Alberta initiatives in higher education reflect a growing Canadian preoccupation with privatization. Opposing ideological forces offer conflicting assessments of privatization in higher education: as endangering the very nature and goals of higher education or as simply providing additional resources and greater consumer choice. Privatization in higher education is identified as a shift in the balances of finance or control from public to private. It is implemented in higher education through the encouragement or toleration of private educational institutions or through the fostering of private investment in public systems. Alberta's 1994 restructuring of postsecondary education is identified as an approach which implements a privati...
The Progressive Conservative government of Premier Ralph Klein undertook an ambitious program of edu...
A reconceptualization of the human capital value of education as a private good, linked to a market ...
Within the last two decades, public higher education has faced increasing cuts in federal and state ...
Recent Alberta initiatives in higher education reflect a growing Canadian preoccupation with privati...
The fiscal crisis of higher education currently is being resolved largely through a financing policy...
Higher education’s financial crisis is being resolved largely through a politics of privatization, c...
The contributors to this special issue expose, in their respective work, the existence and dynamics ...
The trend toward privatization in higher education is clearly accelerating, as evidenced in both the...
Currently, over one-third of Canadian families have opted to enroll their children in private educat...
Marketization has been so liberally applied to understanding higher education finance policy change ...
British Columbia has implemented two significant higher education reforms in the last 15 years. The ...
As public anxiety over access to education increases, public-sector workers are directly able to per...
Unlike the United States, the Canadian provinces have established public monopolies of degree-granti...
Education is well-established by the United Nations (1948) as a fundamental human right, though ther...
Multiple forms of privatization are emerging in the Canadian public sector, including public–private...
The Progressive Conservative government of Premier Ralph Klein undertook an ambitious program of edu...
A reconceptualization of the human capital value of education as a private good, linked to a market ...
Within the last two decades, public higher education has faced increasing cuts in federal and state ...
Recent Alberta initiatives in higher education reflect a growing Canadian preoccupation with privati...
The fiscal crisis of higher education currently is being resolved largely through a financing policy...
Higher education’s financial crisis is being resolved largely through a politics of privatization, c...
The contributors to this special issue expose, in their respective work, the existence and dynamics ...
The trend toward privatization in higher education is clearly accelerating, as evidenced in both the...
Currently, over one-third of Canadian families have opted to enroll their children in private educat...
Marketization has been so liberally applied to understanding higher education finance policy change ...
British Columbia has implemented two significant higher education reforms in the last 15 years. The ...
As public anxiety over access to education increases, public-sector workers are directly able to per...
Unlike the United States, the Canadian provinces have established public monopolies of degree-granti...
Education is well-established by the United Nations (1948) as a fundamental human right, though ther...
Multiple forms of privatization are emerging in the Canadian public sector, including public–private...
The Progressive Conservative government of Premier Ralph Klein undertook an ambitious program of edu...
A reconceptualization of the human capital value of education as a private good, linked to a market ...
Within the last two decades, public higher education has faced increasing cuts in federal and state ...