EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES MOVING TOWARDS FULL COST ACCOUNTING, EUA CONFERENCE HEARS
February 1st, 2008
BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
THE HUGE diversity of higher education institutional funding systems across the 27 countries of the European Union (EU) was cited as one of the main difficulties facing universities, heard the recent European University Association conference on the sector's finances.
In an expert group session, Dr Franz Strehl of Linz University, Austria, said that in principle there should be one funding system template for the whole of Europe, although he admitted the prospect was still a long way off, despite support for the idea within the ...
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