From Privatization (of the Expansion Era) to De-privatization (of the Contraction Era): A National Counter-Trend in a Global Context

Kwiek, Marek

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“…In contrast to the OECD area as a whole, the Polish system has both massively expanded and is now heavily contracting (Kwiek, 2016d). This is rooted in a major decline in the birth rate in the early 1990s.…”

Section: Transition Growth and Demographic Declinementioning

confidence: 99%

“…All institutions compete in the newly created quasi-markets of public funding and strive for higher KEJN scores in the national parameterization and categorization exercise (HPS Proposition 10). However, the role of the private sector has been diminishing and its decline is linked to declining demographics, in sharp contrast to global trends (Kwiek, 2016d).…”

Section: Significance Of the Polish Casementioning

confidence: 99%

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Building a New Society and Economy: High Participation Higher Education in Poland

Kwiek¹

2018

High Participation Systems of Higher Education

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This chapter provides a detailed and extensive assessment of Poland’s high participation system (HPS) of higher education. In contrast with other country cases, Poland’s leap from elite to mass to HPS higher education occurred very quickly, in two decades, after the breakdown of the socialist bloc. The Polish system first experienced both expansion and privatization, which then gave way to the opposite trends of contraction and de-privatization, due to the demographic decline and strengthened governmental regulation. The chapter uses the seventeen HPS propositions to discuss this history and the drivers of massification, governance, horizontal diversity, vertical stratification, and equity issues. The propositions generally fit very well with the country case.

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Section: Transition Growth and Demographic Declinementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Significance Of the Polish Casementioning

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Building a New Society and Economy: High Participation Higher Education in Poland

Kwiek¹

2018

High Participation Systems of Higher Education

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“…Against this backdrop, the role of national governments in regulating Higher Education is also increasing (Altbach, Reisberg, & Rumbley, ). The regulation reform involves permitting private universities (either locally or foreign owned) to establish educational programmes that compete with government‐funded tertiary institutions (Adeogun, Subair, & Osifila, ; Kwiek, ; Muta, ). The increase in competition gives rise to the notion of deregulation in Higher Education, which Ajayi and Ekundayo () define as breaking the government's monopoly of the provision and management of education by giving a free hand to private participation in the provision and management of education in the country by relaxing the legal and governmental restrictions on the operations of the education business.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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When empathy hurts: Modelling university students’ word of mouth behaviour in public vs. private universities in Syria

Mahmoud

Grigoriou

2017

Higher Education Quarterly

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This study examines and compares word of mouth (WOM) behaviour among university students in Syria. To date, little is known about this important phenomenon which is surprising given the deregulated education market in Syria that allows for private universities to compete for students alongside public universities. Using a mixed methods research design and structural equation modelling, our results show faculty individualised attention and student satisfaction were found to be positively related to university image. Further, student satisfaction and university image were found to be direct sources of students’ positive WOM behaviour. We found a moderating effect of university ownership type on university image. Interestingly, we identified six themes showing how support staff empathy could be seen as a source of low student satisfaction. These were defined as deception/credibility/soft‐soapers/suspiciousness: when support staff coax something out of students; confusion/role conflict: resulting from the diverse roles played by support staff while interacting with students; unfairness: when a student notices discrimination in the level of empathy between their peers; privacy: when support staff empathy can be perceived as a kind of intrusion; self‐congratulatory: when a support staff member shows off or praises their empathy; and support staff/student ratio: when this ratio is seen to be small, the empathy effect reverses.

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“…Theoretical and empirical research on privatization in a broad sense, developed mostly within political economy, political sciences and economics, has been historically focused on two parts of the world: the USA (as well as the United Kingdom, see Le Grande and Robinson 1984;Walker 1984;Starr 1989;Feigenbaum et al 1998) and European transition post-communist countries (see Spulber 1997;Nelson et al 1997). Conceptualizations of privatization in higher education though, that is privatization in a narrow sense, refer mostly to the USA (Johnstone 2000;Priest and St John 2006;Morphew and Eckel 2009;Fryar 2012), with a limited number of publications on other parts of the globe (such as Poland, Australia, China, and selected other Asian and African countries, see Marginson 1997b;Kwiek 2016a;Painter and Mok 2008;Mok 2011;and Wang 2014).…”

Section: Theoretical Approaches: Privatization and De-privatizationmentioning

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De-privatization in higher education: a conceptual approach

Kwiek¹

2016

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This paper seeks to conceptualize the processes of de-privatization in higher education. Trends of de-privatization (and contraction in enrolments) are highly interesting because they go against global trends of privatization (and educational expansion). Deprivatization means a decreasing role for the private component in the changing publicprivate dynamics. The paper studies its two dimensions (funding and provision) and distinguishes between seven potential empirical organizational/geographical levels of analysis. Empirically, the paper draws from data from Central Europe. The traditional dichotomous pairing of the public and the private is shown to still be useful in specific empirical contexts, despite it becoming blurred globally. Major approaches to privatization in higher education over the last two decades are rethought and redirected toward deprivatization. An empirically informed notion of de-privatization is being developed and its usefulness is briefly tested.

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From Privatization (of the Expansion Era) to De-privatization (of the Contraction Era): A National Counter-Trend in a Global Context

Cited by 27 publications

References 28 publications

Building a New Society and Economy: High Participation Higher Education in Poland

Building a New Society and Economy: High Participation Higher Education in Poland

When empathy hurts: Modelling university students’ word of mouth behaviour in public vs. private universities in Syria

De-privatization in higher education: a conceptual approach

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