Kíméletlen verseny – bővülő missziók a felsőoktatásban
Intensifying Competition – Multiplying Missions

Summary/Abstract: In the past two decades, the background to the two most decisive trends the world’s higher education system has experienced 1) increasing competition caused by difficulties in financing, and 2) the emergence of mass-education, that is, the nearly general participation of the young population in higher education. One of the answers to this combined phenomenon and related challenge has been the effort made by elite (research-oriented, excelling, world-class) universities to explicitly separate themselves from institutions involved in mass-education – which, in turn, have been trying to stand their ground by broadening their areas of activities, embarking on new missions, seeking to directly ‘serve’ society. The economic crisis that began in 2008 has accelerated this process. The essay reviews recent developments, the new phenomenon that these two trends appear to be getting closer to each other – shown by the third ‘mission’ that is coming to the foreground, and by the influence global, regional and national rankings have had on each other.

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