POLOŽAJ I PERSPEKTIVE ZNANOSTI I VISOKE NAOBRAZBE U HRVATSKOJ
STATUS AND PERSPECTIVE OF SCIENCE AND HIGHER EDUCATION IN CROATIA

Summary/Abstract: In the article the author analyses the most important issues exerting pressure on Croatian higher education and science. He especially focuses on the inadequate understanding of the importance of science for a (desirable) development of Croatia, resulting in its totally insufficient financing. The need to change the existing system of higher education and science in terms of greater quality and excellence, which the author insists on, collides with a very resilient old attitude that both higher education and science belong to the sphere of consumption and that the growth of expenses for these fields of work should be postponed for some other "better" times. Due to a lack of understanding of science as a factor of development, it has been deprived of one of its most significant roles in Croatian society – that of development factor.

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