Mandatory Student Fees and the Academic Library

As academic libraries' budgets remain flat while their expenditures rise, library leaders must seek out alternative sources of funding. One option is a mandatory student fee dedicated to the library. This article presents the results of a survey of 152 deans and directors of public R1 and R2 research universities that were asked whether their libraries benefit from mandatory student fees. While a library-specific fee is unusual, nearly half of responding libraries are eligible to receive some portion of another mandatory student fee. Study results can serve as evidence for libraries preparing to make a case for the significant, positive impact possible through even a modest library fee.     

如何建立完善的高校收费体系

分析目前收费工作因收费体系不建全而存在的问题，提出了完善收费体系的思想，并将高校体系的内涵阐述为包含国家收费主管部门、高校内部管理部门、商业部门、社会媒体与交费主体学生本人的新思路，对解决目前存在问题，各组成部分应发挥的作用提出了一些看法。     

教育乱收费：怎一个“钱”字了得

教育乱收费是发生在近年我国教育界的一大顽症。这一顽症的成因主要是教育资源不均衡、优质名校稀缺、政府投入不足以及监管制度的缺失。而整治教育乱收费必须采取拉网式行动——健全监管机制、制止公办教育产业化、发展民办教育、确保政府教育投入。     

完善高校学生收费会计核算制度的探讨

针对现行的高校学生收费会计核算制度只能单纯反映实际收到、上缴学费,而对学生应缴、欠缴学费以及学校按政策减免学费等相关信息不能反映的问题,按照"收付实现制"、"收支两条线"的原则,提出通过增设"应收学生学费"会计科目,变更现有"应缴财政专户款"会计科目的核算内容等措施,达到完善现行高校学生收费会计核算制度,为学校整体资金管理与安排提供更加全面、及时、准确的信息。     

Fees,flows and imaginaries: exploring the destination choices arising from intra-national student mobility

ABSTRACT

Are intra-national student flows driven by the same forces as international student mobility? This paper addresses this question by analysing cross-border student mobility in the UK. The paper identifies four principles that one might expect to drive the destination choices of students from Scotland enrolling in English universities. Following a statistical analysis of student destination choices, it is argued that cross-border moves from Scotland to England are stimulated by some of the same global forces as international student mobility (such as a desire to accumulate cultural capital), but in terms of destination choice the imaginaries held by Scottish students of ‘good’ places to study in England to accumulate cultural capital are constructed differently from the imaginaries of international students.     

The personal tutor–student relationship: student expectations and experiences of personal tutoring in higher education

The personal tutor plays a key role in the student experience at university, and personal tutoring embodies the student relationship with the university, suggesting that it has the potential to provide insights beyond that specific relationship to the institution and higher education context. A focus session with first year undergraduate students explored expectations and experiences of personal tutoring from the student perspective. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to explore students’ lived experiences, and identified superordinate themes of expectations, experiences and relationships, with cluster themes including independence and authenticity. Developing a positive and genuine relationship with the personal tutor was found to ‘buffer’ against some of the first year challenges and contribute towards a sense of belonging. Importantly, this study provides evidence that experiencing poor personal tutoring is worse than not having a personal tutor at all, as this can lead to students experiencing strong negative emotions and re-evaluating their decision to go to university. Implications of these findings in the current higher education context of fee-paying students and competing institutional demands are discussed.     

浅谈水利工程水费经营性改革

我国水资源严重缺乏，节约用水迫在眉睫。由于水利工程设施陈旧、水价政策不到位、制度不完善、用水意识落后等原因，导致水的利用率非常低。针对这些问题，必须加强引导，建立合理水价形成机制和管理体制；健全财会制度，构建水费核算体系；提高认识，强化管理，推动供水商品化进程。     

浅谈“校园一卡通”给高校学生收费管理带来的变革

“校园一卡通”的普及和推广,给高校学生收费管理带来了改革与创新。基于金陵科技学院“校园一卡通”在学生收费管理中的实践,指出“校园一卡通”在学生收费管理过程中存在的主要问题,提出如何加快高校学生收费管理的改革以适应“校园一卡通”的发展。     

我国农村义务教育投入政策的多源流分析

多源流理论是由美国学者约翰·W·金登提出、用于解释政策过程和政策变迁的理论模型。使用多源流模型分析我国农村义务教育投入政策历经的两次重大变革,2001年“以县为主”的变革是农村税费政策外溢的结果,而2006年“新机制”的出台都是三条源流汇合、政策窗口开启导致政策变迁发生。从对我国政策实践的分析可以看出,多源流理论于我国同样具有解释力。     

Students selling sex: marketisation,higher education and consumption

Robust academic research on the topic of students involved in the sex industry is in its infancy, yet the relationship appears consistent and permanent. This paper draws on findings from the largest study into the stripping industry in the United Kingdom to explore the relationships between students, sex work and consumption. To make sense of the relationship between students and participation in the sex industry, a deeper understanding of other social and cultural processes is needed. In this discussion we argue that the following points are relevant and interlinked: changes to the nature of sexual commerce and sexual consumption as they become part of the marketplace; changes in social attitudes and the rise of ‘respectability’ in sexual commerce; the ‘pleasure dynamic’ amongst students; and changes in the higher education structure that place students as consumers as well as financially fragile. We set out a future research agenda given that this relationship is set to grow as the individual bares the cost of higher education.