Vouchers in Dutch Higher Education : from debate to experiment

As market-like mechanisms become more important in higher education, demand driven funding, and more specific vouchers, gain a lot of attention. As such, the advantages and disadvantages of vouchers have been discussed in a wide variety of settings. However, hardly any country has been prepared to introduce vouchers as a system wide mechanism for allocating the public means available for higher education. The Netherlands forms no exception to that. Also in the Netherlands, vouchers have been seriously considered as a means of funding higher education. Major stakeholders in the debate are the M... Mehr ...