The Western Balkans: A Higher Education Problem Area

Authors

  • Paul Temple

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6017/ihe.2013.70.8713

Keywords:

Balkans, Albania, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia

Abstract

The summer 2012 issue of International Higher Education (no. 68) included articles on higher education in two countries from the former Yugoslavia—Philip G. Altbach on Slovenia and Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic on Serbia—and a review of developments in another Balkan country—Romania, by Paul Serban Agachi. The picture that emerges from these reviews is of higher education systems with undoubted strengths, struggling to overcome dysfunctional historical legacies, dating from before and after the formally communist period, but certainly strongly conditioned by it.

It may be worthwhile to compare the situations reported in these countries, with those found across the countries of the fragmented region now known as the Western Balkans—Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, and Montenegro, as well as Serbia.

Downloads

Published

2013-01-01

How to Cite

Temple, P. (2013). The Western Balkans: A Higher Education Problem Area. International Higher Education, (70), 23–25. https://doi.org/10.6017/ihe.2013.70.8713

Issue

No. 70: Winter 2013

Section

Countries and Regions

License

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

    1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
    2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
    3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
    4. Authors will be required to sign our standard License Ageement before publication.

A Word document containing the License Agreement is available for download here.