The In Focus section of the magazine IAU Horizons (Vol. 19 No.3) includes 10 papers focusing on the theme: Student Tuition Fees – perspectives from around the world.
International Student Tuition Fees from a Global Perspective, by Daniel J. Guhr, Managing Director (guhr@ illuminategroup.com)and Nelson Furtado, Analyst (furtado@illuminategroup. com), Illuminate Consulting Group, USA
Few topics in higher education are as salient, as well as polarizing, as tuition fees. Tuition fees for international students are no exception. Over the last two decades, these fees have become an ever growing aspect of international education. In 2012, international students across all levels of study contributed USD 120-130 billion (ICG estimate) to their host countries, with tuition fees accounting for about one third of this amount.
Higher education accounted for the bulk of the spending on international education. By contrast to the often modest expenditures of international students in the decades after WW II, today’s international university students often have to invest USD 150,000 or more in an undergraduate degree, or USD 40,000 in a one-year master’s degree.
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The In Focus section of the magazine IAU Horizons (Vol. 19 No.3) includes 10 papers focusing on the theme: Student Tuition Fees – perspectives from around the world.
University Tuition Fees: “To be or not to be?”, by Eric Charbonnier, Analyst, Education and Competences Directorate, OECD, Paris, France (Eric.Charbonnier@oecd.org)
Today, the French University must continue its transformation and deal with three major challenges: increase the number of university students and staff while maintaining the quality of the training provided; participate in the increased competition between countries to attract the best qualified students; and find a fair balance between public funding and private funding (contributions of businesses and students).
 Funding for higher education is at the heart of the higher education debate in the OECD countries. It is also one of the major topics of concern of the French University Presidents Conference (Conférence des Présidents d’Universités – CPU) or even the Conférence des Grandes Écoles. Since 1995, 14 of the 25 OECD countries, for which data are available, have changed their tuition fee system. Most of the reforms have resulted in an increase in average tuition fees and went hand in hand with a revision of the level of State aid to students (see indicator B5 of Education at a Glance 2012).
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The In Focus section of the magazine IAU Horizons (Vol. 19 No.3) includes 10 papers focusing on the theme: Student Tuition Fees – perspectives from around the world.
Student Tuition Fees – perspectives from around the world, by Hilligje van’t Land, IAU Director Membership and Programme Development (h.vantland@iau-aiu.net)
Dear Readers,
The In Focus section of this IAU Horizons tackles the controversial issue of Tuition Fees, offering a series of reflections by authors from around the world.
Charbonnier, from the OECD, identifies four different tuition fee models and shows how the balance between public and private funding is uneven in many countries, drawing out how difficult it is to establish ‘appropriate’ tuition fees schemes. Guhr and Furtado from the Illuminate Consulting Group (ICG), based in the USA, compare and analyse the cost of international education on the basis of data from the ICG’s ‘International Tuition-based Competition Database’. The analysis of actual “investment” in international higher education includes a comparative approach to cost of living and estimated return of such education.
Leonard, based in Korea, looks at the negative financial impacts of the global economic crisis and the decreasing public funding on ‘Tuition dependent institutions’. Newby analyses the unforeseen impacts of the UK tuition fee policy and calls for new strategic planning at the country level to ensure financial future viability of UK universities.
Granfelt describes some of the impacts of the “Competing on the basis of quality bill” adopted by the Swedish government in 2010, and its in particular effects on student mobility flows from outside the EU into the country. Furtado completes the picture in Sweden, with an analysis of the impact of the bill on the University of Lund, and calls for a national plan to advertise better for the advantages to study in the country.
Bester, Duplessis and van Aardt write about the role of UNISA in defining tuition fee levels for South African HEIs, through complex cost analyses of education, cost of living and national needs. Gordon looks at the case of Ghana, and makes the case for governments to better explain what tuition fees actually cover so that students and families understand the role they play when settling fees.
Mongkhonvanit and Sawheny look at Thailand, and at what issues should be taken into consideration to establish tuition fees, whilst ensuring access to HE to the majority of the population through. Brigg shows how the Illuminate Consulting Group’s comparative study assisted Griffith University in defining its tuition fees for international students insisting on the need to factor in cost of living; international rankings; specialised programmes; working permits; security; traditional migration flows; etc..
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The In Focus section of the magazine IAU Horizons (Vol. 19 No.3) includes 10 papers focusing on the theme: Student Tuition Fees – perspectives from around the world.
Message from the Secretary General - To charge or not to charge?
‘To charge or not to charge?’, that is a question that is increasingly answered in the affirmative, even in higher education systems with a long history of free higher education. The pressure to find ways to replace lower investments from public sources or to fill the coffers needed to expand the system of higher education has been growing steadily. Most frequently, it is the learner (or his/ her family) that is expected to pay. The debate that surrounds tuition fees is nowadays rather about who should pay, how much they should pay and how they can borrow (and repay) the money.
The economic arguments on which the idea of tuition fees rest have to do with private returns on investment and the traditional expectation that higher education graduates will have greater earning power. Yet, as higher education credentials become common currency of ever-larger segments of society and as the unemployment rates of higher education graduates are climbing in many nations, is this argument still tenable? And, even if it is not, what alternatives are open to higher education institutions which see the per student contribution from public sources diminish each year?
On the other side of the tuition fee argument are those who point out that free higher education is no guarantee of equity in access, the central social equity argument against tuition fees. Looking at the socio-economic make up of higher education enrolments often provides testimony for this argument, though charging tuition fees, even along with all manner of loans and student aids can certainly work against equity goals. As usual, the In Focus section of this edition of IAU Horizons could have been longer, presenting many more viewpoints with regard to tuition fees from different geographic or stakeholder perspectives. It is not our intent to be exhaustive and so only a sample of situations and arguments is offered here. To add to this overview of the issues, a random sample of references from the international press is also been prepared. Eva Egron-Polak.
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By Daniel Shumski. Amid news that the "sticker price" for college tuition is often a work of fiction — there are at least 200 colleges where no one pays full price for their education — some schools have been striking out in a different direction. They're lowering their prices across the board in a practice sometimes called a "tuition reset."
The idea is simple: Rather than tempting students with big discounts, administrators are hoping that applying a lower tuition more consistently will help them stand out. In most cases, the schools maintain that it's not about taking in less money in the aggregate and that their programs will not suffer. More...

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