HIGHER EDUCATION GOVERNANCE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES

Abstract

Notions of the governance of higher education were long based on theories about the interplay of identified
actors: the state, the market and the academic oligarchy. The paper analyzes governance models in higher education,
which give an idea about the structure and functions of state and public control in the Atlantic, Continental, Eastern
educational systems. The principles of higher education management (centralization, decentralization), the ways
government systems distribute power (unitary, federal, confederal) are observed. General and specific changes in
state and public influence on higher education and the higher schools by the example of some European countries, the
Americas and Asia are grounded. Innovations in the governance of the higher education system are determined. The
focus is here on the linkages of external and internal governance of organizations and the relationship between formal
and informal mechanisms at various levels.
The environmental context of institutional change from a number of perspectives” the increase in demands
on univeristy systems, transformation and differentiation in mission and structure, relevance of higher education
provision, funding and resources, and university-state relationships are analysed.