COST-SHARING IN HIGHER EDUCATION: INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR VIETNAM

Hoang Le Mai Phuong; Nguyen Thanh Tam; Nguyen Thi Hien; Nguyen Minh Duc; Dang Thi Minh Hien

Nguyen Thanh Tam	thanhtam.vss@gmail.com	The Vietnam National Institute of Educational Sciences 101 Tran Hung Dao, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi, Vietnam
Nguyen Minh Duc	nguyenminhducvkhgdvn@gmail.com	The Vietnam National Institute of Educational Sciences 101 Tran Hung Dao, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi, Vietnam
Nguyen Thi Hien	hien137nguyen@gmail.com	The Vietnam National Institute of Educational Sciences 101 Tran Hung Dao, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi, Vietnam
Dang Thi Minh Hien	Dtmhien.qlgd@gmail.com	National Academy of Education Management 31 Phan Dinh Giot, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi, Vietnam
Hoang Le Mai Phuong	hoanglemaiphuong@gmail.com	Vietnam Education Publishing House Limited Company 12 Lang Ha, Dong Da, Hanoi, Vietnam

Summary:

Higher education will have increasing importance in channeling human resources to support social development and economic growth. However, higher education is also costly, especially when at high level, these costs are magnified by dramatically increased enrollment pressures. Governments are also besieged with other pressing public needs, many of which seem more politically compelling than the claims of higher education and which, together with higher education, greatly exceed, in almost all countries, the available scarce public revenues. Cost-sharing, or the shift in at least part of the higher educational cost burden from governments (or taxpayers) to parents and students, is a worldwide trend. This is the key to solving the financial problems that higher education is facing. This article introduces the experience of cost-sharing practices in Sweden, the United States and Singapore, thereby highlighting some suggestive implications for Vietnam in developing policies to implement cost-sharing in higher education.

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Keywords:

Education economics

education finance

cost-sharing

cost-sharing in higher education

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Journal:

No. 33, September 2020

VIETNAM JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES

THE VIETNAM NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES

COST-SHARING IN HIGHER EDUCATION: INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR VIETNAM