Participation in higher education has never been greater and governments around the world continue to invest huge sums of money in the sector not least to encourage even more enrolment. Meanwhile many countries are moving away from centralized taxpayer-funded systems to more âmarketizedâ models. For these and other reasons the intersection of economics and higher education has never been more apparent. Increasingly economic principles are applied to analyses of education and education policy as scholars and policymakers grapple with difficult questions such as: how should the costs of higher education be shared between stakeholders? What are the âdriversâ of inequality in higher-education participation? And what is the appropriate role for government? . Language: English