Exploring Tuition Fees as a Policy Instrument of Internationalisation in a Welfare State -- The Case of Sweden

Autor/inn/en	Lundin, Hans; Geschwind, Lars
Titel	Exploring Tuition Fees as a Policy Instrument of Internationalisation in a Welfare State -- The Case of Sweden
Quelle	In: European Journal of Higher Education, 13 (2023) 1, S.102-120 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Lundin, Hans) ORCID (Geschwind, Lars)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2156-8235
DOI	10.1080/21568235.2021.1994867
Schlagwörter	Tuition; Fees; Educational Policy; Social Systems; Neoliberalism; International Education; Educational Change; Foreign Students; Foreign Countries; Scholarships; Governance; Educational Finance; Educational Quality; Reputation; Access to Education; Policy Analysis; Costs; Marketing; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Unterweisung; Unterricht; Gebühren; Studiengebühren; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Social system; Soziales System; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Internationale Erziehung; Bildungsreform; Ausland; Scholarship; Stipendium; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Finanzierung; Bildungsfonds; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Access; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Politikfeldanalyse; Cost; Kosten; Schweden
Abstract	This article sheds light on some challenges that internationalisation raises for policymakers regarding public funding of higher education in a welfare state by examining policy logics for introducing tuition fees for international students in Sweden 2011. Using thematic analysis of documents related to the Swedish reform, we identify how an increasing number of international students was the perceived policy problem, threatening national students' access to free higher education. Policy objectives included sharing the cost of internationalisation but also enabling control of cost and influx of international students, enhancing quality and strengthening national branding. Many of these objectives concur with more established understandings on why policymakers turn to the market according to a more neo-liberal 'market' logic. However, a policy mix of tuition fees and scholarships enabled a governance model of control, which more relates to a 'welfare' logic. Likewise, the policy problem indicates that a search for profit and revenue cannot simply explain tuition fee reforms for international students. By discussing how underlying normative assumptions at the policy formulation stage contrast reality ten years after the reform, it appears that revenue from the global market has been more significant for Swedish policymakers than the rhetoric suggests. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01