THE OTHER SIDE OF AUDIT CULTURE. CASE STUDY OF
OBLIGATIONS AND DUTIES OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS Cover Image

ДРУГА СТРАНА РЕВИЗОРСКЕ КУЛТУРЕ. СТУДИЈА ПРИМЕРА ОДНОСА ОБАВЕЗА И ОПТЕРЕЋЕЊА УНИВЕРЗИТЕТСКИХ НАСТАВНИКА
THE OTHER SIDE OF AUDIT CULTURE. CASE STUDY OF OBLIGATIONS AND DUTIES OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS

Author(s): Bojan Žikić
Subject(s): Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Higher Education , Sociology of Education
Published by: Институт за етнологију и антропологију
Keywords: ethnology and anthropology; audit culture; higher education reform - standards for establishing and control of quality; University professor; Department for Ethnology and Anthropology of the Faculty

Summary/Abstract: Proponents of application of so called audit culture criteria onto activities of Serbian academic community are guided by the principle that not only is everything subject to measuring, but that it is the only way to determine the "objective" results of a particular institution or individual. However, because of the absence of an exact method for such "measuring", they refer to standards and parameters which they either proclaim themselves, or adopt from foreign institutions, often tailoring them to suit their own political purposes in the process of alleged "imposing order" in scientific and professional activity of the academic community. Members of the academic community and their particular work are left unconsidered by those scientific and educational "reformists", or at least invisible in respective regulations. Bearing in mind that current legal regulations in the area of higher education state that external evaluation is preceded by process of self-evaluation of a particular institution, I propose methodology for identification of the real work-load of University professors, with regard to their obligations stemming from the employment contract, Law on University, and Statute of the Faculty. All this is based on personal records of duties and on the calculation of time that was needed to fulfill those duties in a professional and quality manner during one academic year.

  • Issue Year: 9/2009
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 99-120
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Serbian