The article analyzes the main tendencies to increasing demands and new proposals of policies and instruments to finance the higher education studies, an strategical thematic of human capital development in the knowledge society, which is part of the challenges that nowadays, can be already noticed in different countries. Some cases are reviewed in the countries bellow: Australia, Germany, United Kingdom, Chile, the United States and Colombia, that in several formats, directions and instruments, try to solve a set of common problems. The text ends analyzing the similarities and differences and also the formulation of proposals that, besides any ideological, political and technical position, are based on the state's key role and on several public policies showed in different scenes.
Financing demands; Financing of higher education studies; Students' financing policy; Instruments to finance higher education