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Vincent-Lancrin, Stéphan

• Analyst
  
• Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
  
• Directorate for Education, Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI)
  
• France

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Directorate for Education, Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI)
France

Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin has been working at the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (Directorate for Education) for over 5 years on various topics, including internationalisation of higher education, e-learning, international quality assurance, knowledge management, learning cities and regions. He has co-authored and coordinated the recent OECD/CERI publications on Internationalisation and trade in higher education and on E-learning in tertiary education.

He is currently leading two projects: a follow-up of CERI work on internationalisation and trade in higher education geared towards developing countries, in collaboration with the World Bank (Capacity development through cross-border higher education); a major project on the future of higher education, based on thematic analyses, consultation and scenario building.

Before joining the OECD, Stéphan has worked for 7 years as lecturer and researcher in economics at the University of Paris-Nanterre and the London School of Economics. He holds a PhD in economics and master’s degrees in business administration and in philosophy.

Select Publications

• “What is changing in Academic Research: Trends and Futures Scenarios”, European Journal of Education, 41(2), 2006.
• “The impact of ICT on tertiary education: advances and promises”, in Advancing knowledge and the knowledge economy, Brian Kahin and Dominique Foray ed., MIT Press, 2006 (with Kurt Larsen).
• “Building capacity through cross-border tertiary education”, Observatory on Borderless Higher Education, March 2005

Comparative trends in access, equity and cost

My research will explore the evolution of participation in higher education across OECD countries, and analyze whether the cost of education to students and their families and the funding of higher education has an impact on access and equity (and, if yes, what impact). One aspect of my proposal is to explore how the cost of higher education to families has been related to the participation in higher education across countries – by comparing countries with high student financial contribution (Japan, Korea, Chile, etc.) and those with modest or no student contribution (Northern and continental European countries). It will also look at the impact of cost on the socio-economic composition of higher education participation, especially in countries where tuition fees have increased significantly over the past decade (Australia, the Netherlands, England, Canada, the United States, etc.). While many countries engage in a renewed debate on cost sharing and tuition fees that is fed by a new academic literature (Barr, Johnstone, Marcucci), my study will try to cast light on the actual impact of cost-sharing in particular national contexts and cultures.

My hypothesis is that international comparisons will indicate that the cost of higher education has little impact on the aggregated level of participation. However, the cost of higher education may have an impact on where students from different groups study, on how they study, on whether they complete their studies and on their labor market outcomes. The research will draw on quantitative and qualitative evidence at international and national levels. The quantitative data will come from OECD databases on education, society, and the economy as well as other international databases (labor force surveys, social surveys, etc.) but would primarily draw on national data given the limits of international data in this area.