Tuesday 25 September 2012

Student awareness of the costs and benefits of higher education

an article (CEPCP376) by Martin McGuigan, Sandra McNally and Gill Wyness published in CentrePiece - The Magazine for Economic Performance (September 2012)

What impact did media reporting of the near trebling of tuition fees have on school students’ understanding of the costs and benefits of university?
A CEP experiment run by Sandra McNally and colleagues sheds light on this question as well as on broader issues about the importance of clear information about the value of higher education.

Full article (PDF 7pp)

This article summarises Student Awareness of Costs and Benefits of Educational Decisions: Effects of an Information Campaign (PDF 57pp) by Martin McGuigan, Sandra McNally and Gill Wyness, Centre for the Economics of Education Discussion Paper No.139, August 2012


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