Policy Issues in International Postsecondary Education: Access, Quality, Affordability, and Equity

Harvard HGSE

This course explores critical issues in the field of international postsecondary education coalescing around a few essential questions every country around the globe must answer in their own ways: Who should attend? How can quality be ensured? How can postsecondary education be financed? What role does equity play? Responses to each of these questions are predicated upon how a country defines and understands the purposes of postsecondary education. Students will also become familiar with some…