The Dual-Track Tuition Fee Model in Russia and Post-Soviet Countries [Scholarly Article - International Higher Education, 2022]

Title:

The Dual-Track Tuition Fee Model in Russia and Post-Soviet Countries

 

Author:

Anna Smolentseva

 

Published:

International Higher Education, Number 109 (2022)

https://www.internationalhighereducation.net/en/handbuch/gliederung/?articleID=3378#/Beitragsdetailansicht/865/3378/The-Dual-Track-Tuition-Fee-Model-in-Russia-and-Post-Soviet-Countries

 

Abstract:

The dual-track tuition fee model in post-Soviet countries is a distinctive funding model in international higher education. A legacy of the late Soviet state, which injected market mechanisms into the tuition fee-free socialist system, it divides students into two selection and funding streams regulated by different types of competition and price setting. This creates profound inequities, and, in most institutions, incentives to focus on revenue without regard for educational quality.

IRELAND - What can be learned from Ireland’s move to free tuition? [University World News, October 2021]

Title:

What can be learned from Ireland's move to free tuition?

 

Author:

Arthur M Hauptman

 

Published:

University World News, 25 October 2021

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20211025141529127

 

From the article:

Since tuition fees were eliminated in the mid-1990s, higher education funding in Ireland has experienced a pattern of boom and bust. Government resources have tended to grow when the economy was booming but declined during economic downturns. Revenues from tuition charged to some students and registration fees from all students often could not keep up with cuts in government funding.