Students, markets and social justice

Hubert Ertl, Claire Dupuy

This edited volume examines recent changes in tuition fee policies in a number of Western European countries, Canada, the USA and China, and investigates the impacts of these changes on access to higher education. The contributions of the volume are twofold: first, it provides an overview of recent forms in a comparative perspective, including a diverse range of national context; second, it elaborates a systematic analysis of tuition fee policies' rationales, instruments and outcomes in terms of access to higher education. The volume thereby argues that tuition fee policies provide fruitful grounds to explore the variety of neoliberal trends in higher education, that is, how marketisation trends and concerns about social justice are intertwined in contemporary higher education systems.