The university entrance examination system across East Asia might once have been needed to allocate scarce university slots.
Many discriminations are even enshrined in regulation: to gain scarce university entrance slots, for example, high school students from villages and small towns, where they are usually at an educational disadvantage, must test considerably higher, not lower, than urban youths.
* Guardian: Over-20s in rush for scarce university places The Daily Mail takes out much of its page three today with a battle cry to "Save our Orchards" following information from campaigners that two-thirds of them have vanished since the 1950s due to changing land space, industrial farmers or development.
This is particularly the case for resource-scarce universities in Southern countries.
Mr. Crosno said he anticipated that with resources likely to remain scarce, public universities would be looking for more outside partners.
Remedial courses are becoming scarce at universities but remain one of community colleges' strengths, Summers says.
The main drawback for regions in the European Union (EU) member states, as recognized by EU Communication (COM-2010-553), is the limited innovation capacity of businesses, associated with low research and development levels, and scarce links with universities and research centers.
As Britain crawls out of recession and jobs remain scarce, demand for university places is booming, while cuts to public spending mean that competition for them will be fiercer than ever.Although British students will pay £3,290 a year for their tuition from September, the real cost of educating them is far higher; the gap is plugged by taxpayers.
With tenured positions and funding being scarce in the French universities and public research organisations, university graduates are the ones who most often lose out.
Within Belarus's Soviet-style economy, private sector jobs are scarce, as are independent universities.
