Die Untersuchung stellt den Wettbewerb als Mittel zur Reform der Hochschulausbildung ins Zentrum der Überlegungen. Dass der Wettbewerb ein geeignetes Mittel sei, die gegenwärtige Hochschulmisere zu lindern oder zu beseitigen, wird seit einigen Jahren auch von Bildungspolitikern gesehen,...

The market for undergraduate education has many similarities to an arms race. A school's position - relative to other schools - determines its success in attracting students and student quality. Its position, in turn, is largely determined by the size of its student subsidies, the difference...

All of the financial aid decisions at Williams College for the past fourteen years - nearly 14,000 of them - were used to see how much students actually paid for tuition, room, board, and fees to go to that highly selective and expensive school - their net prices. Williams practices need blind...