Resourcing higher education in Ireland
Funding higher education institutions
This policy brief is the third in a series of thematic policy briefs in the OECD's
Resourcing Higher Education Project. This wider project aims to provide a shared knowledge
base for OECD member and partner countries on policy for higher education resourcing,
drawing on system-specific and comparative policy analysis. The policy brief for Ireland
addresses a series of specific questions about the funding of higher education institutions,
formulated by Ireland’s Higher Education Authority (HEA). The brief first reviews
the main factors that affect the cost of delivery in higher education (cost drivers)
and the extent to which OECD jurisdictions monitor costs and use cost information
to inform the design and implementation of their funding systems. It then provides
an analysis of the ways in which OECD jurisdictions design models for allocating public
funding to higher education institutions to promote social inclusion objectives, reward
institutional performance and provide targeted resourcing for national priorities,
such as increasing supply of high-demand skills.
Published on March 14, 2022
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