Efficiency of public policies for financing higher education: a comparative study among Brazil, Canada and China

• Main Authors: Danilo de Melo Costa, Francisco Vidal Barbosa
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Faculdade Cesgranrio 2018-04-01
• Series: Meta
• Online Access: http://revistas.cesgranrio.org.br/index.php/metaavaliacao/article/view/1370

The research performs the evaluation of the main public policies for financing of higher education (HE) in Brazil, Canada and China, between the period from 2003 to 2012, starting from a gap to be explored concerning the proposition of new public policies with a view to potentially subsidize other existing national systems in the globalized world, taking as a basis practices already carried out in other countries. Therefore, it was conceptualized the Brazilian, Canadian and Chinese HE funding. When it comes to the methodological procedures, the study was designed as an exploratory, quantitative and multi-case research, with bibliographical and documentary data collection, in which 15 public policies were statistically analyzed, from the compound annual growth rate (CAGR), taking into account the investment made and the number of students attended in the period, in order to check the efficiency of each policy. The results showed a series of possibilities to promote the advancement of HE worldwide, with examples of policies that can be replicated to other nations, and, therefore, assist them in their development.