Tertiary Education: A Global Report

Source: EdStats, Education Advisory Service, World Bank. Note: our thanks to Emilio Porta of the World Bank for permission to post these slides on GlobalHigherEd.

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Austerity budgets, fiscal squeezes, and territorial obligations: the end of an era?

These two graphics (both released in the last two days) capture broad-based aspects of the fiscal squeeze confronting public higher education in the United States. Source: Moody’s (2011) Weekly Credit Outlook, 31 October, p. 43. Source: ‘Chart: One Year of Prison Costs More Than One Year at Princeton,’ The Atlantic, 1 November 2011. A direct [...]

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