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The future for universities: a public–private partnership?
Author(s) -
Perry Baroness
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0270.00107
Subject(s) - general partnership , government (linguistics) , autonomy , quality (philosophy) , higher education , business , public administration , private education , academic freedom , public–private partnership , private sector , public relations , economics , economic growth , political science , finance , law , linguistics , philosophy , epistemology
Higher education funding arrangements remain unsatisfactory. Central government's price controls over the services which universities offer threate both autonomy and quality. The best UK research universities can no longer compete with their counterparts in the United States and elsewhere. This article proposes a return to private status for universities, allowing them to form a contractual relationship with government for teaching and research, with freedom to charge an additional market price for their services to privately funded and overseas students.