Managing demand in higher education: the voucher as a market oriented tool.

It is widely recognised that pressure on today’s public systems is leading them to adopt functioning models that are better suited to current conditions. In the context of Higher Education (HE), the tendency in recent years in many European countries has been to organize the university sector as a quasi-market, characterised by a considerable degree of autonomy of universities but with the State both financing and regulating the sector. The Voucher may be an effective way of introducing market mechanisms into HE This paper identifies any preliminary relationship between the method of financing, course prices and the opinions of the students.