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VELEZ CARDONA, Waldemiro. Problemas, alternativas y tensiones en torno al financiamiento de la educación superior. Perfiles educativos [online]. 2003, vol.25, n.100, pp.07-22. ISSN 0185-2698.

The changes within the funding patterns undergone by higher education in the last twenty or twenty-five years have given raise to profound transformations. This study analyses some of the main causes of those changes, and has a main references the critical situation in which higher education institution in Europe and the United States have been living. Besides, it offers a discussion about the most outstanding ways in which the financial problems that higher education had to tackle with during the last decades show up. Finally, the author highlights some of the strategies that have been developed in order to deal with the financial crisis that higher education institution, and above all the public ones, goes through.

Palavras-chave : Funding; Higher education; Crisis; Restructuring.