Non-integrated Universities and Long-standing Problems The Universities of Zagreb and Belgrade in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Today

• Authors: Nikola Baketa
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The higher education system of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia displayed three specific characteristics – a) non-integrated universities, b) absence of a federal ministry of education since the 1970s, and b) self-managed Communities of Interest as the decision-maker in the higher education system. Therefore, there was no direct connection between the universities and economic planning. The author considers this to be one of the causes of high unemployment of graduates and brain drain towards Croatia and Serbia. Twenty years after the dissolution of the SFRY, the universities are still not integrated, there aren’t any connections with the market, and the same problems prevail. This paper focuses on the flagship universities from Croatia and Serbia. The author uses the historical institutionalism framework, document analysis and the process tracing method in order to explain and connect these issues. As a conclusion, the author offers three solutions for the reorganization of non-integrated universities.

Keywords

EN

higher education; university; Yugoslavia; unemployment; brain drain

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: International Review of Social Research
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 111-124

Dates

published

2014-06-01

online

2015-05-06

Contributors

author

Nikola Baketa

• Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/irsr-2014-0015