From System Expansion to System Contraction: Access to Higher Education in Poland

Kwiek, Marek

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“…The picture emerging from a quantitative analysis is that of a divided academia: the split between academics in the two career stages is powerful and all-pervading, across all the academic field clusters studied. This quantitative picture is in line with a qualitative picture which emerges from interviews with both junior and senior faculty: the categories of 'feudalism' and a 'feudal system' are the most prevalent ones in the description of academia by academics under 40 (see Kwiek 2013a).…”

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Academic generations and academic work: patterns of attitudes, behaviors, and research productivity of Polish academics after 1989

Kwiek¹

2015

Studies in Higher Education

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This paper focuses on a generational change taking place in the Polish academic profession: a change in behaviors and attitudes between two groups of academics. One was socialized to academia under the communist regime and the other entered the profession in the post-1989 transition period. Academics of all age groups are beginning to learn how tough the competition for research funding is, but young academics ('academics under 40'), being the target of recent policy initiatives, need to learn faster. Current reforms present a clear preferred image for a new generation of Polish academics: highly motivated, embedded in international research networks, publishing mostly internationally, and heavily involved in the competition for academic recognition and research funding. In the long run, without such a radical approach, any international competition between young Polish academics (with a low research orientation and high teaching hours) and their young Western European colleagues (with a high research orientation and low teaching hours) seems inconceivable, as our data on the average academic productivity clearly demonstrate. The quantitative background of this paper comes from 3704 returned questionnaires and the qualitative background from 60 semi-structured in-depth interviews. The paper takes a European comparative approach and contrasts Poland with 10 Western European countries (using 17,211 returned questionnaires).

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Academic generations and academic work: patterns of attitudes, behaviors, and research productivity of Polish academics after 1989

Kwiek¹

2015

Studies in Higher Education

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“…However, the second, instrumental model -massively promoted in the new wave of Polish reforms though perceived as irrelevant by the academic community today -may gain influence over the coming years through various state-supported changes in funding and governance mechanisms (Kwiek, 2013b). In combination these models do not seem to complement each other in Poland, as Olsen describes the majority of Western European systems studied.…”

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The unfading power of collegiality? University governance in Poland in a European comparative and quantitative perspective

Kwiek¹

2015

International Journal of Educational Development

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“…Second, the increasing demand for education could not be satisfied by public universities that were the only educational institutions in the communist era. The new law that was introduced in 1990 allowed non-public universities to be founded and as the result between 1990 and 2010 the number of higher education institutions increased more than four times from 112 (in 1990) to 460 (in 2010), constituting the biggest private higher education system in Central-Eastern Europe (Kwiek 2013). Out of 460 universities 330 were non-public, although public universities educated 71 % of the total number of students.…”

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“…Contraction of the fee-based private sector (full-time studies in public sector are tuition free) was first to follow the decline in the enrolment level (Kwiek 2013). According to Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education until 2013 49 non-public universities closed down or were under liquidation (Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education website, derived 31.03.2013).…”

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Changes in students’ choice determinants in Poland: a comparative study of tertiary business education between 2008 and 2013

2014

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For the last 20 years Polish education faced turbulent changes, first experiencing a rapid increase in the number of students and the dynamic growth of educational institutions, and then facing the reverse trend of decreasing number of students and universities being closed down or facing serious financial problems. Furthermore, forecasts for the next 10 years predict that most of the non-public universities in Poland will experience serious problems to survive in the market. Facing new challenges, universities changed the way they think about their students and the customer-oriented approach became the dominant management imperative for most of them. Ability to understand the reasons behind students tertiary education decisions emerged as a key issue in increasing enrollments. Predicting students choice determinants may be however more difficult than expected as those choices are dynamic and might change over time. While the literature on the university choice factors is growing, still little is evidenced with regard to the dynamism of the tertiary education decision making process and this article is aimed to contribute to filling this gap. We identified that both aspects of students decision making process-pursuing tertiary education and the choice of the particular university-are a subject of change over time and might be conditioned on economic, social and demographic changes of the given market.

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From System Expansion to System Contraction: Access to Higher Education in Poland

Cited by 56 publications

References 19 publications

Academic generations and academic work: patterns of attitudes, behaviors, and research productivity of Polish academics after 1989

Academic generations and academic work: patterns of attitudes, behaviors, and research productivity of Polish academics after 1989

The unfading power of collegiality? University governance in Poland in a European comparative and quantitative perspective

Changes in students’ choice determinants in Poland: a comparative study of tertiary business education between 2008 and 2013

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