Editorial: assessing an education system in transition

Modelling Higher Education in Eastern and Central Europe since Perestroika

“…Much of the support for development in the states under consideration here has become conditional on the development of political democracies through changes in ideology. Education, as an agent of change, has an important role to play in this process of democratization (Tabulawa, 2003) through the contribution of human resources (Parkes, 2003). In this respect, the support given to Eastern and Central Europe and its teaching force, through such projects as the Trans-European Mobility Projects for University Studies (TEMPUS/PHARE), Regional Academic Projects (REAP) and Training and Academic Links (TACL) under the British Know How Fund (KHF) and the European Commission's Socrates programme, have provided opportunities for reform and contributed information towards the building of conceptual models that further our understanding of change.…”