Changing Public-Private Dynamics in Polish Higher Education

Authors

  • Marek Kwiek

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6017/ihe.2016.86.9368

Keywords:

public-private dynamics, private higher education, Poland, educational contraction, demographics

Abstract

The public–private dynamics in systematically contracting Polish higher education has been changing rapidly. In the global context of the increasing reliance on cost-sharing mechanisms and the private sector growth, the Polish system seems to be moving in the opposite direction as our data show. The Polish trend of higher education de-privatization (in funding and enrolments) goes against the global trend of its privatization. The Polish case shows how fragile private higher education is when its dominating demand-absorbing subsector is confronted with a double challenge of changing demographics and massive public financing in the public sector.

Author Biography

Marek Kwiek

Marek Kwiek is director of the Centre for Public Policy Studies and a chair holder of the UNESCO Chair in Institutional Research and High- er Education Policy, University of Poznan, Poland. 

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Published

2016-05-25

How to Cite

Kwiek, M. (2016). Changing Public-Private Dynamics in Polish Higher Education. International Higher Education, (86), 18–20. https://doi.org/10.6017/ihe.2016.86.9368

Issue

No. 86: Summer 2016

Section

Private Higher Education: A Changing Global Landscape

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