The use of cost-benefit analysis in funding continuing education

Steering the fifth wheel

Bibliographic Data

ID11424753
AuthorsMartin Cloonan (0000-0002-2592-0968, corresponding author), Arnaud Hearinger, Benedetto Matarazzo, Mark Murphy (0000-0002-8326-7119), Michael Osborne (0000-0002-1609-385X), Mike Osborne
Year1999
Volume18
Issue6
Pages492-504
Publication date1999-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Lifelong Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0260-1370 • E-ISSN: 1464-519X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/026013799293540
OpenAlexW2080955840
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited6

This article builds upon recent interest in models of funding Continuing Education (McGivney 1990, Berrell and Smith 1996, Matkin 1997). It is based on an EU-funded project which examined inter alia current funding models for Continuing Education (CE) within four European Union countries - France, Ireland, Italy and Scotland. The article firstly discusses the breadth of CE. It then investigates the existence of funding models by examining the use of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) in determining course provision in the relevant countries. We argue that while costs and benefits form part of providers' everyday thinking, expression of CBA was generally implicit and never articulated in technical terms. We suggest that providers' value-systems, or ideology, militate against simplistic use of CBA. We conclude by returning to the question of models of funding CE

Continuing education · Cost–benefit analysis · Economic growth · Economic policy · Economics · European union · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Public relations · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Adult and Continuing Education Topics · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law · Public Administration

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