...Elisa Rose Birch; Paul W. Miller Purpose This paper aims to investigate the determinants of taking out government‐funded student loans for university study in Australia. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses an ordered probit model to quantify the influence of the various factors which...

...Wolfgang Drechsler The essay narrates and analyzes Eugen Dühring’s remotion, i.e. the taking away of his status as Privatdozent, and thereby of his right to teach at a university, by the Prussian Minister of Culture in 1877. After sketching out the background of the University of Berlin...

...Peter R. Senn This is an article about the possible lessons for academic freedom that Dühring’s expulsion from the University of Berlin might have for us today. It begins with a brief discussion of his strange fate in the English language literature in contrast with his high position in the history...

... the impact of alternative finding arrangements for post‐compulsory education. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Financing Grants Higher education Loans Students Subsidies Universities United Kingdom The funding of higher education in the UK has undergone several changes in recent years. These have...

...Walter Hoflechner Describes the development of the Austrian university system 1875‐1914. German influence was detrimental to Austrian universities′hopes for improving standards, higher status and autonomy. German scholarship was linked with German nationalism – increasing conflict between German...

...Nicholas W. Balabkins Describes briefly the personal histories and important professional association of Gustav Schmoller and Friedrich Althoff emphasizing their innovatory period 1870‐1882 at Strasburg. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Germany History Innovation Professions Universities...

...W.S. Peirce; P. Kruger Discusses the factors relating to the success of Friedrich Althoff as an innovator (or entrepreneur), within the nineteenth century bureaucratic Prussian public administration, that enabled him to be the driving force in the building of the university system. These include...

... a wide variety of sources. Explains how it could happen that an influential person would end up in intellectual history with almost no recognition. Challenges several conventional assessments. Althoff′s most important contributions are in print and more almost certainly exist in university archives...

...Arthur M. Diamond Surveys, from an American perspective, the existing literature on economic explanations of the behaviour of universities and scholars. The modern literature is put in historical perspective introduced by a brief discussion of the positions of two of the earliest and most...

...Manfred Prisching Looks at the university at the end of the nineteenth century using the concept of a “social institution”, and applying four approaches. A functional analysis provides insights into the kinds of knowledge a university produces. Examination of changes in these functions...

... of emphasizing key features;third, subjects the stylized features of the system to economic analysis, relying heavily on the property rights theory of the firm and treating the university as an economic institution; fourth, takes a slightly different approach by applying Gordon Tullock′s analysis...

... An Economic Approach Lode Vereeck Faculty ofLaw, University of Limburg,Maastricht, The Netherlands An Economic Approach 71 The "Althoff system" is the most comprehensive term for the organization of Prussian and German academic life and work, which, at the turn of the century, spanned a period of 25 years...

...Helmut F. Spinner With respect to the guiding “ideas” of Humboldt and their consequences for the constitution of science, describes the transition to a modern research university with the emergence of theory‐based practice, science‐based technology and technology‐based industry. The pure research...

... Scientists Teaching Universities Journal of Economic Studies 20,4/5 Are Scientists Different? Gordon Tullock Department of Economics, The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA 90 As you all know, Israel has been in a highly disturbed state over the last 18 months and much in the news. The New York Times...

... Equal opportunities Universities How Much State University State Education in a Free Society Education in a Free Society? Some Remarks on the "Althoff System" Kurt R. Leube 167 Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and California State University at Heyward, California, USA Education seems to me...