Financing higher education: experience of Russia and Germany

DOI

10.2991/cildiah-17.2017.38How to use a DOI?

Keywords

financing, higher education, funding criteria, funding sources

Abstract

The article considers the actual problem of financing higher education in a comparative aspect on the example of Russia and Germany. The levels of funding higher education in Russia and Germany are characterised; the main and additional sources of funding are described; the differences in attracting extrabudgetary funds for the development of universities in Russia and Germany are also stated. There are the tendencies, revealed in the designated sphere in the modern period beginning from 2000 to the present moment, and the statistical data provided. The authors describe the criteria that affect the amount and funding streams; highlight problems in applying these criteria, justify the necessity of improving the system of indicators that determine government funding of universities; establish the regularities of financing higher education in such aspects as amounts, supplementary sources, the university status and others; describe the differences in financing universities caused by the system of classifying universities according to their status (budgetary, autonomous, federal, elite et al.) adopted in Russia and Germany; determine the similarities and differences in the financing process in Russia and Germany. In conclusion, they suggest possible directions for improving the system of financing Russian universities taking into account international experience

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Y.V. Pereverzeva
AU  - A. N. Shamne
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TI  - Financing higher education: experience of Russia and Germany
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Scientific and Practical Conference "Current issues of linguistics and didactics: The interdisciplinary approach in humanities" (CILDIAH 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 215
EP  - 219
SN  - 2352-5398
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