The paper presents the history of Czech higher education, which has a very
rich tradition. Authors have taken up a number of issues in the context of crucial
importance of higher education and its role in building of the intellectual capacity
of the country (which has been strongly experienced by history).
The aim of the article is to discuss the issue of academic revolution in India.
Particularly since the globalization, this revolotion is marked by transformation
unprecedented in scope and diversity and education particularly higher education
is profoundly influenced by the new order. However, it remains unfinished task
due adequate statutory support of the government. In Indian context the national
aspirations, to establish knowledge society in the context of increasing
globalization, is based on the assumption that higher and technical education
essentially empower people with requisite competitive skills and knowledge.
The emerging trends demonstrate consumer driven approach to enhance
marginal capital gains in educational investment. The higher education being
a powerful tool to build knowledge based society and also a critical input
underlying sustainable development has received a significant attention
nowadays.
The article presents the common causes (external and internal factors) for
reforming the national higher education, which actively began after the
proclamation of the independence of Ukraine.
Strategies of state policy in the sphere of education are presented. They are
aimed at overcoming the crisis of the previous socialist education system,
ensuring the state's needs for highly qualified specialists and scientific research,
promoting development of the society through the establishing a competitive
human capital.
Ways and the complexity of formation and development of the national high
school during the last decade of the XX–XXI centuries of the first decade are
researched.
Promising development vectors in the context of European integration,
socially-oriented market economy and student centered learning are highlighted.
China has experienced the rapid emergence and development of private
higher education in the recent decades. This article focuses on the current
situation in several key areas, such as development of non-state education,
globalization influence at chinse non-state education and social stratification in
this sector. It shows regional diversity and random planning in private higher
education and also stress situation low-income groups. Moreover it presents
acquisition of labour market qualification by mentioned groups. This study
concludes that proper financing and management in an urgent thing to do and in
the future it will benefit from to Chinese society through multiple roles.
The article include the consideration of social functions of higher education
for indigenous minorities living in the Arctic. Particular emphasis was placed on
reconstructing educational practices and the language policy that is implemented
toward indigenous minorities in Alaska, Canadian Arctic, Greenland, northern
regions of Scandinavia and Northern Russia. An attempt was made at examining
the relationship between higher education, language policy, and the development
of ethnic identity.
Changes that take place in a job environment, job structure, job perception,
as well as in the sphere of features, meanings and values ascribed to work are
constituents of changes in the contemporary world, particularly of the
development of the free market economy. It is difficult to overestimate the
significance of these changes for the quality of career construction, its
development and modification of its individualized paths. The contemporary
study of career requires taking into account multicontextual changes in the world
of work, that make employees face new challenges. In the economy based on
knowledge, which in turn determines the orientation of the modern society to
knowledge, the career development of its members and investing in their
„portfolio” become the key elements of such an economy. The development of
a career “portfolio” means the investment and renewal of the career capital on
the path of proactivity.
Based on Hardt and Negri concept I analyzed function of the bioproductive
university. The bioproductive university have three function: creating,
détournement and management of subjectivities, social relations and commons.
I analyzed those function in context of social capital.
The Bill defines a requirement which are base of the academic teacher
periodic evaluation. The question about criteria, conditions, and instrumentality
in the evaluation process should be asked. The investigation was conducted
based on 32 evaluation sheets used in 22 Polish universities. As a result the
characteristics of the sheets and their construction were displayed. The occupied
position or the scientific degree of employee determines the disproportion in the
scope of assessment conditions. Another results show main domain which are
considered during evaluation of teacher activity. A scientific category of
university turned out significant for the scope of an attention paid to these
domains. The evaluation sheets were arranged in a typology on the base of their
characteristics.
In the text is analyzed the issue of the parametric evaluation of scientific
journals. The author makes thesis (and justifies it), that the nature and
methodological bases of this process will determine the quality of effects
of works on the scientific journals evaluation and it’s further status. Whereas
this evaluation has far-reaching consequences for the development of the
science.
In the article is taken the issue of condition of pedagogy as a research field
and academic discipline. Many critical researchers and analytics arrives at
a conclusion that there is a crisis of: school, higher education, upbringing,
teacher’s role, educational system etc. Thus, we face common demand of
changes, adaptation, reorganization, modernization, emancipation of/for/towards
that what is placed within the field of pedagogy. Fundamental questions about
the scientific nature and paradigmaticness of pedagogy are being moved to the
further plan and giving up place to the questions about: the state of the
pedagogy/pedagogics, the quality of problems considered by it and its
ability/readiness to solve those problems.
In this article I make a critical analysis of educational policy in Poland during
the 25 years of the political transformation. I try to refer to the Polish
thoughts and practices of teaching experience in the period of 1989–2014. What
is more, I present experiences of anti-socialist opposition during the socialist
period. They influenced on impression in the works and commitments of many
scientists and a new generation of academics.
Furthermore, I indicate how my generation after 1989 went into the road of
scientific autonomy and / or independence in the field of government and private
education. Benchmark for these analyzes build up the hopes which we tied up
with the Polish revolution of non- violence. Moreover, there was a strong disappointment,
which revealed over the years due to the departure of distinctive
political formation of the Third Republic of the ideals and the phenomenon of Polish „Solidarity” movement, and civil society, which included the move away
from the base of participatory democracy.
Finally, I look at how education as a science and practice of education fit
into democratization of the Polish state and society. The key meaning for me
has the perception of education as a common good, as environments and entities,
institutions or management practices which participate in the democratic
society. To sum up, this society is constantly in the period of recovery from
years of experience not only fascist, but Bolshevik totalitarianism, too.