. On the Right of the Academic Community to Intellectual Property and Scientific Creativity

Abstract

The author continues to present his analysis of various aspects of the violation of educators’ rights at the national and international levels, which he has articulated extensively in publications and conferences. This is of particular importance in the current context of uncertainty regarding the content of Generation Z and even more so about Generation Alpha’s professional activities. Given that up to 85% of professions, to which part of them shall be ready as early as in a decade, have not yet been identified even by name, the education system is faced with the challenge of developing special qualities of personality - sustainability, adaptability to change and the desire for self-development. Can an educator under systemic pressure from violations of academic rights and freedoms provide an effective solution to such a challenge? The author begins to seek an answer to this question by drawing attention to the contradictions in the dispositions of public and private law regarding intellectual property, work quota settings for teaching staff and the rating of the effectiveness of educational activities. The employed methodology of content analysis allowed for the author’s conclusions concerning the necessity of amending the regulatory procedure of higher school function for the purpose of the remedy of the mentioned disproportions to be justified. A proposal was made on the need for reconcilation of institutional innovations in the course of recovery of the basis of university autonomy regarding the elaboration of objective parameters of ranking universities both at national and at international levels, the correction of work quotas for teachers in order to achieve comparability in the activities of the academic community in the two dimensions of its actors: in the scientific, in which pedagogy is the accompanying activity segment, and in the pedagogical, in which pedagogy is the accompanying activity segment.