Table of Contents

1. Access to Higher Education: Massification and Beyond Hans Vossensteyn and Ben Jongbloed

Part I: Institutional diversity

2. Access, Equity and the Participation of Disadvantaged Groups Gareth Parry

3. Government Policies as Responses to Increased Demand for Higher Education: Experiences from Asian Private and Public Sectors Prachayani Praphamontripong Kanwar

4. Digital Players in an Analogue World: Higher Education in Poland in the Post-Massification Era Dominik Antonowicz

Part II: System strategy and transparency

5. California: Facing Pressing Challenges in Expanding Mass Higher Education Alicia Kinne and William Zumeta

6. The Effect of Rankings on Student Choice and Institutional Selection Ellen Hazelkorn

Part III: Student financing and equity policies

7. Student Funding and the Social Dimension in Croatian Higher Education Karin Doolan, Thomas Farnell, Ninoslav Šćukanec and Jon File

8. The Cultural Determinants of Access to Post-Secondary (Higher) Education in Canada: Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications Ross Finnie, Richard E. Mueller and Arthur Sweetman

Part IV: New modes of delivery

9. New Modes of Delivery: The Threatened Potential of Part-time Undergraduate Education in England Claire Callender

10. Between Challenges and Trends of Lifelong Learning: Higher Education and the Recognition of Prior Experiential Learning Ana Luisa de Oliveira Pires

11. In Conclusion: Doing more with Less: New Ways of Providing and Financing Higher Education in the Post-Massification Era Ben Jongbloed and Hans Vossensteyn

About the Author

Ben Jongbloed is a senior research associate of the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands.

Hans Vossensteyn is the Director and a senior researcher of the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, and Professor of Higher Education and Science Management at the Hochschule Osnabrück, Germany.