Finanzierungsprobleme und Finanzierungsalternativen der Bildung

Educational expenditures show a disproportionate growth in long-term economic and social development. Therefore financing of educational outlays increasingly determines educational policy. Furthermore the existing system of financing educational investments, particularly the financing of institutional and private costs of higher education, seems questionable under the criteria of internal efficiency of educational institutions, of external or allocative efficiency of educational development, and of the distributional effects of tax-financing. As alternative systems an increase of fees, a system of repayable loans, a voucher system and a model of integrating the financing of higher education into an extended system of income taxation are investigated. Finally the need for a reform of financing higher education is discussed