Educational Research Expenditure in Switzerland O

Authors: Siegfried Hanhart Marie Anne Broyon

Publish Date: 2005/04/25

Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 47-62

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Abstract

Switzerland spends about 6 of its GDP on education In the past few years there have been carrying out important reforms in the educational field for example introducing a vocational high school diploma and creating specialized higher vocational institution hautes écoles What is the extent of educational research in this context There are very little data on this subject To meet the need of information we carried out a study examining expenditure on Swiss educational research from 1998 to 2000 and the link between sources of funding and research centres The results of the abovementioned study show that expenditure on educational research is modest compared with the overall cost of the educational system It also reveals a distinct distribution of tasks amongst the institutions directly dependent on state educational administrations and universities Although there are also other sources of funds educational research relies mainly on public funding This is disconcerting as public budgets have been facing cuts in recent years and new requirements for research needs will arise future research is likely to involve such activities as evaluating reforms and participating in international survey We conclude new funding strategies have to be found and researchers need to communicate their results more effectively

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