Trends in higher education: statistical trends in nine Western-European countries, 1990-1999

This presentation is based on the third trendreport in the framework of the CHEPS Higher Education Monitor. In this report the statistical trends over the period 1990-1999 on a number of key indicators from the CHEPS database is presented for the following nine countries: Austria, Denmark, Flanders, Finland, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The indicators described in this trendreport are chosen according to a basic model of the operation of a higher education system. This model focuses on the flow of students through the higher education system. The three characteristics of the flow of students are: the inflow of students (new entrants), the stock of students (enrolment) and the outflow of students (graduates). The main resources used are staff and financial resources.