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V. Foreign Higher Education and Education Systems, International Relations, Bilateral Relations
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Author KWIEK, Marek
Title De-privatization in higher education: a conceptual approach / Marek Kwiek
Publication year 2017
Source/Footnote In: Higher education. - 74 (2017) 2, S. 259 - 281
Inventory number 45677
Keywords Hochschulreform : allgemein ; Hochschule : Privathochschule ; Ausland : Polen : Hochschulwesen allgemein
Abstract This paper seeks to conceptualize the processes of de-privatization in higher education. Trends of de-privatization (and contraction in enrolments) are highly interesting because they go against global trends of privatization (and educational expansion). De-privatization means a decreasing role for the private component in the changing public–private dynamics. The paper studies its two dimensions (funding and provision) and distinguishes between seven potential empirical organizational/geographical levels of analysis. Empirically, the paper draws from data from Central Europe. The traditional dichotomous pairing of the public and the private is shown to still be useful in specific empirical contexts, despite it becoming blurred globally. Major approaches to privatization in higher education over the last two decades are rethought and redirected toward de-privatization. An empirically informed notion of de-privatization is being developed and its usefulness is briefly tested. (HRK / Abstract übernommen) Kwiek, Marek, E-Mail: kwiekm@amu,edu.ol