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Az intézményi működési keretek átalakítási kísérletei a magyar felsőoktatásban
Attempts to Change Institutional Frameworks in Hungarian Higher Education

Author(s): András Derényi
Subject(s): Higher Education
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: changes in the role of HEIs; legal frameworks of operation; freedom in management; autonomy; higher-education policy; policy implementation

Summary/Abstract: Changes in the role of higher education institutions, the emergence and strengthening of their third mission, and the development of appropriate or responsive way of governance, operational frameworks, and the relationship between the state and higher education institutions have been a topic for decades for researchers and authors (Clark 1983; Etkowitz 1997; Clark 1998; van Vaught–de Boer 2015; Gronitzka–Massen–de Boer 2017 just to name a few). Hungarian researchers were also interested in this topic (several paper of Barakonyi, Hrubos, Keczer, Kováts, Polónyi), which provides further resources for research; indeed, issues of steering and status of institutions go hand in hand with issues of governance, management structure, and financing of institutions. However, only a few scholars (Polónyi 2009; Veres 2016a, 2016b) have undertaken a long-term review of the Hungarian higher education policy aspirations for the development of institutional operating frameworks. This paper attempts to look at those aspirations and developments that have been done in the past three decades, searching for distinctive identities or even specific differences.

  • Issue Year: 29/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 64-77
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Hungarian