Ethical Aspects of the Quality Assessment in Slovakia

• Authors: Vasil Gluchman
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the paper is to study socio-ethical aspects of Slovak higher education policy in the context of contemporary discussions on university assessment criteria. I conduct an ethical analysis and assess the criteria introduced in Slovakia that consider employment opportunities and the graduate unemployment rate, publishing in high impact journals, participation in European research programmes, etc., which often discriminates against the humanities and social sciences. On the other hand, I also point to the absence of a social contract regarding the common good provided by Slovak universities, drawbacks of a legislative nature which often provide a basis for unethical behaviour within the Slovak academic community and, most often, problems concerning academic ethics in contemporary Slovakia.

Keywords

EN

Slovakia; humanities; social sciences; higher education policy; quality assessment; social ethics.

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 380-389

Dates

published

2015-10-01

online

2015-10-06

Contributors

author

Vasil Gluchman

• Institute of Ethics and Bioethics, Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov, 17 novembra 1, 08078 Prešov, Slovakia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/humaff-2015-0030