The Government-Citizen Partnership as a Social Contract for Higher Education Funding
May 01, 2018
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Published in: 2st AFU International Conference: Towards Advanced Scientific Knowledge in Business Sciences
Publisher: Al Falah University
This Empirical study introduces the partnership approach as a social contract for higher education funding in which the three life stages of citizens (the learning stage, the working stage, and the retirement stage) can be used as a guiding rationale to support the full government funding of higher education. The paper assumes that the lifelong partnership of governments and learners can be fair if each party were to pay its fair share of the costs. The study assumes that the relationship between government and its learning citizens extends beyond citizens’ acquisition of knowledge or completion of degrees and includes different periods of funding in which the two sides exchange the funding role throughout the lifetime of a citizen.