The Buenos Aires Statement on Higher Education Funding

Responding primarily to World Bank policy on higher education funding, as first outlined in the Bank’s 1987 report entitled The Financing of Education in Developing Countries and reiterated in the 1994 guidelines document entitled Higher Education: the Lessons of Experience, the Buenos Aires Statement, adopted by IAU in 1994, articulates the Association’s opposition to the key thrust of these policies. It urges institutions of higher education everywhere to contest all recommended solutions which focus exclusively on financial and economic conditions and ignore political, cultural and historical aspects of the higher education systems in developing nations.

Read the Buenos Aires Statement on Higher Education Funding here.

Lire la Déclaration de Buenos Aires en français ici.