People on a bridge: Central European higher education institutions in a storm of reform

Don F. Westerheijden; Karen Sorensen

doi:10.1007/978-94-015-9263-5_2

People on a bridge: Central European higher education institutions in a storm of reform

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Abstract

Arguably, the demise of communism in Central and Eastern Europe was the largest environmental change for higher education institutions in the last half-century. Hundreds of higher education institutions in tens of countries were challenged, inter alia, to:
change their governance and management structures to more democratic ones that would allow more autonomous behaviour;
-change their curricula to match the transformation from socialist economies to market economies;
-change their mission from mainly teaching-oriented to incorporate research; and
-compete with a new sector of private higher education institutions of varying kinds.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	From the Eye of the Storm
Subtitle of host publication	Higher Education's Changing Institutions
Editors	Ben Jongbloed, Peter Maassen, Guy Neave
Place of Publication	Dordrecht
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Pages	13-38
Number of pages	26
ISBN (Electronic)	978-94-015-9263-5
ISBN (Print)	978-90-481-5355-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9263-5_2
Publication status	Published - 1999

Keywords

Autonomy
Institutional culture
Transformation

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People on a bridge : Central European higher education institutions in a storm of reform. / Westerheijden, Don F.; Sorensen, Karen.

From the Eye of the Storm: Higher Education's Changing Institutions. ed. / Ben Jongbloed; Peter Maassen; Guy Neave. Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999. p. 13-38.

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