Przeobrażenia szkolnictwa wyższego w dobie globalizmu

Abstract

According to the author, the main causes of the contemporary reforms of higher education can be traced back to the spread of neoliberal ideas, decrease in state’s participation in financing tertiary education with the public money, and the needs of information society. The 1990s restructuring of academic education aimed at its vocationalization. Neoliberal tendencies were directed towards the marketization of higher education, focusing on efficiency, economic value and the “product” quality, as well as towards establishing new relations between students and academic teachers, as clients and vendors. Having described in detail challenges that higher education faces nowadays, the author discusses alternatives to the present tendencies of marketization, productization and globalization. In the conclusion, the author presents his predictions concerning potential changes in tertiary education in the nearest future.