Includes bibliographical references and index.

Higher education funding and access in international perspective / Sheila Riddell, Sarah Minty, Elisabet Weedon and Susan Whittaker -- Student support in Wales: a case of progressive universalism? / Lucy Hunter Blackburn -- Higher education decision-making and young people's horizons for action in Scotland / Sarah Minty -- Can the techniques of New Public Management be used to promote wider access to higher education / Sheila Riddell -- Higher fees, higher debts: unequal graduate transitions in England? / Katy Vigurs, Steven Jones, Julia Everitt and Diane Harris -- The implications of HE funding and provision differences for students crossing borders in the UK / Susan Whittaker -- Widening access to higher education: balancing supply and demand in Ireland / Emer Smyth -- Widening access to higher education in Sweden: changing political ideologies, changing tactics? / Elisabet Weedon -- Widening participation in higher education: policies and outcomes in Germany / Andrea Ohidy -- Higher education funding and student activism in Quebec: the Printemps Erable and its aftermath / Marie Aurelie Theriault -- The price of university: economic capital and the experience of under-represented students in an elite US university / Katherine L. Friend -- Student tuition fees in Australian higher education: a litany of public issues and personal troubles / Trevor Gale and Stephen Parker -- Higher education in the developed world: common challenges and local solutions / Sheila Riddell.

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