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University Governance in Western Europe and in the Visegrád Countries
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The so called Visegrád countries-Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic-have the same historic heritage and a similar socioeconomic path since the change of the political system. Hence, it is worth to compare the policies, characteristics and progress of their higher education systems. Obviously, it is also important to see whether the policies regarding universities and the progress of higher education in the V4 countries are converging to the Western countries, or the gap is widening. I focus my analysis on the governance of higher education institutions in the Visegrád countries. I present their historical path from the communist era, and analyze where they are heading nowadays – comparing to the Western European countries.
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University Governance in Europe: Managerial Convergences or Political Harmonization?
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Objective: This contribution attempts to highlight the convergences and divergences of the strategies and modes of governance put in place in the current context of European universities (knowledge economy, budget restrictions, changing demand of students and employers). Methodology: A study of three universities from three different countries, two public and one private, is proposed from the analysis of the internal official documents (strategic projects) of the structures and interviews with the leaders. Findings: Elements of convergences and divergences are highlighted, which makes it possible to make hypotheses to verify in other researches. Value Added: The approach is exploratory and complementary to the analyses in terms of the structure and strategy model of higher education institutions Recommendations: The implementation of the Bologna Process is still often instrumentalized or rejected (defence of local specificities or fears of excessive standardization), but the current...
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The higher education sector continues to be influenced by the market, as well as the continued pressures of lower government funding, and the need of citizens for easy access to educational services, and even with increased competition from international institutions. All these are the factors that determine the success of higher education institutions, and force the institutions to adapt quickly in an environment that requires a steady stream of satisfying educational services.. Over the last decade, changes in funding and growing demands from students and donors have created a whole new model of higher education.This new trend has changed the way higher education institutions are run and operated, and the public's perception of them. Higher education institutions ,now, need to be managed more as public administrations or a business in the private sector. New models not largely dependent on public and government grants, but it is always based on accountability to the public and satisfy the needs of society. In some new model, higher education institutions must increasingly generate revenue, as does any private sector for profit corporation. Academics see universities as the engine of total progress. They transfer their intellectual productions to the institutions to meet the needs of society; University governance is making this progress. Here, University governance appears to be a necessary and precondition for deepening the independence of universities and institutions of higher education. This research shows the principles of this governance, methodology, models, comparisons between countries, and proposes a new model.
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University Autonomy and the Governance System
2013 •
Francesc Xavier Grau Vidal
The aim of the book is to present the author’s proposals on the reform of the governance model from a holistic and functional perspective. The first task when designing a system of governance should be to identify the function that it is to fulfil, which leads on to the question of exactly why universities are meant to be autonomous. For the good of society, universities as institutions have to guarantee that the knowledge they generate and transmit does not favour the interests of any particular group. They provide a public service that must act with autonomy. This autonomy must include all decisionmaking mechanisms, the whole system of governance, so that the public service of higher education and research can be rendered as efficiently as possible and without submitting to the influence of political, economic or religious interests. On the basis of the conclusions of the study University Autonomy in Europe II. The Scorecard and the current situation of the university, research and innovation system, this study proposes a well-defined set of governance elements that cover all the dimensions of university autonomy. The study makes explicit reference to the university system in Catalonia but its conclusions and argumentation are of more general applicability.
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The unfading power of collegiality? University governance in Poland in a European comparative and quantitative perspective
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