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V. Foreign Higher Education and Education Systems, International Relations, Bilateral Relations
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Author KWIEK, Marek
Title Globalization and higher education
Publication year 2001
Source/Footnote In: Higher education in Europe. - 26 (2001) 1, S. 27 - 38
Inventory number 13356
Keywords Globalisierung ; Hochschule : gegenwärtige Situation ; Hochschulreform : allgemein
Abstract The question of the role of higher education in society and culture today is linked, in this article with two parallel processes: the questionning of the nations-state in the global age and the gradual decomposition of the welfare state in the majority of the OECD countries. What is currently happening is, first, a major redefintion of the general responsibilities of the state vis-à-vis the familiar type of society characterized by the welfare state and, second a major revision in thinking about the role of the state in contemporary politics and economics brought about by globalization processes (anbd hence the possible demise of the nation-state). The modern German-inspired university in the form in which it exists in Europe is certainly affected by the new processes. The aim of this article is to discuss higher education in this particular context. (HRK / Abstract übernommen) Kwiek, Marek, E-Mail: kwiekm@main.amu.edu.pl