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Higher Education Funding and Incentives: evidence from the Norwegian funding reform
Author(s) -
FRØLICH NICOLINE,
STRØM BJARNE
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
european journal of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.577
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1465-3435
pISSN - 0141-8211
DOI - 10.1111/j.1465-3435.2008.00378.x
Subject(s) - norwegian , incentive , public funding , higher education , affect (linguistics) , political science , public economics , public administration , business , accounting , economics , economic growth , sociology , philosophy , linguistics , communication , microeconomics
In this article we examine how the introduction of an output‐based funding scheme in Norwegian public higher education in 2003 affects pass requirement standards. Based on a survey of faculty at the institutions concerned, we find that the propensity to expect that the new funding model will affect the failing/non‐failing decision in exams is higher among faculty at the regional colleges than among traditional university faculty. This result is robust when we verify a range of individual characteristics of the respondents.