Financing higher education in Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand

Financing higher education in Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand

August, 2012
Bruce Chapman
In recent decades Southeast Asian countries have enjoyed simultaneously rapid economic growth and a significant expansion of the higher education sector. This is not a coincidence: higher education both contributes to and is caused by economic growth. And as demand for human capital grows in middle-income Asian countries, enrollments and graduations can be expected to increase in the short and medium term.