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Rocznik Lubuski
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2011
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vol. 37
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issue 1
121-142
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System transformation in Poland significantly covered the area of higher education. Successive non-state schools were established and primarily offered studies which enjoyed great popularity. Appreciating the "profitable" knowledge was the advantage of the transformations. On the one hand liberalization of law led to a considerable increase In universities offer, the competition between them appeared and the number of students enlarged tremendously. On the other hand, the new situation revealed the weaknesses of Polish higher education system, in particular within the area of imperfect law and the lack of appropriate outlays on education. The transformations of higher education evoked multiple problems and discussions on the ethos of the scholar, university identity, relations between university and social environment, and payment for studies, which seemed to be necessary in connection with financial deficiencies. Democratization of public life generated the participation of next social groups in the discussion on the shape of higher education. It was mainly caused by the media which facilitated the discussion on the state (diagnosis) and potential shape (development strategy) of higher education. In the article the author presents the results of analysis of press releases (since the beginnings of the 1990s) connected with the topic of the paper. He shows chosen aspects of higher education which aroused the most fierce discussion because of their significance for the functioning of the sector. Some of the phenomena are new for universities which have to face them to maintain certain type of autonomy displayed by the concern for educating the intellectual elites and the mission of preserving and multiplying the culture on the possibly highest level.
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The author presented the history of Higher Education Reform in Poland for the years 2008 - 2011 and the discussion (taking place mainly in the press - "Forum Akademickie", "Gazeta Wyborcza") on the condition of Polish science and the reform. First she showed the changes at Polish universities after 1989, financial condition of universities, the genesis of changes prepared since 2008 and various phenomena within the higher education in Europe, especially massification of education. The author also presented two strategies for the development of higher education in Poland - one prepared by the consortium centered around Polish Rectors Foundation, and another commissioned in a consortium of commercial companies by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. She reported a discussion on both strategies and highlighted the participation of a wide range of scientists in the works over the strategies and in the discussion.
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The starting point in the reflections on strategic thought will be the question of how much the present state of higher education in Poland results from the conscious Policy of Polish authorities. Spontaneous marketization of higher education in Poland within the last 20 years appeared to show the absence of education state policy, however, top-down state regulations changing the rules of market game could be observed. And today, despite higher education reform actions initiated by the government in 2008, there are the voices about the absence of education state policy and substantive public debate on it. And therefore what is the relation between the discourse and the government actions oriented towards the socio-economic development of the country as well as the attempts of the government and academics to indicate the path for higher education development? Finally, what is the reaction of universities to these actions? The guiding thesis of the paper is the assumption of reproductive character of constructing development strategy (treated as the effect of imitative modernization) and the danger of falling into apparent actions trap. In this context the policy of socio-economic development of Poland may be considered as the effect of a wider, European development strategy (Lisbon strategy). In terms of macro perspective, the reflection of such a strategic thinking tendency is the strategy/strategies for the development of higher education at meso-level. In terms of micro perspective, development strategies increasingly being elaborated by particular universities are the reflection of strategic actions. The aim of strategic thought analysis from three above-mentioned perspectives will be the attempt to show how productive and how reproductive the programmes are. A particular attention will be paid to university strategies which are suspected of being partially the example of actions taken only to match the politically correct pattern.
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