Abstract
Abstract The determinants of higher education policy have their sources in various spheres, such as economic, social, educational, national policy, administrative, and demographic. Problems for the development of higher education also stem from these spheres. One of them is the challenging demographic situation that is a significant element of developing higher education in southern Poland (particuarly in the Silesia region). Given this context, this article aims to indicate the policies of the universities in the region which respond to the existing demographic threats. This relationship is to confront student opinions regarding their vision for their education and future career within the current demographic situation. Using research-based on an analysis of university and regional local government strategic documents and surveys carried out among students, we conclude that higher education development policy is responding to the demographic transformation. Meanwhile, students’ attitudes to the challenges of the demographic situation is quite “flexible” and relatively ambivalent. This article presents the contrast between the increasingly tricky demographic situation in Silesia, Poland, and the limited response in the two main groups of stakeholders – academic authorities and students – that require shaping higher education ipolicy towards future demographic challenges.
Highlights
Higher education policy (HEP) is shaped based on many factors that overlap, or are interrelated, and which determine the ultimate form of a university’s structure, its objectives and the quality of its education, and the possibility of conducting research
The determinants of higher education policy have their sources in various spheres, such as economic, social, educational, national policy, administrative, and demographic
One of them is the challenging demographic situation that is a significant element of developing higher education in southern Poland
Summary
Higher education policy (HEP) is shaped based on many factors that overlap, or are interrelated, and which determine the ultimate form of a university’s structure, its objectives and the quality of its education, and the possibility of conducting research. Three provinces, Lower Silesia, Opole, and Silesia: the problem facing smaller universities in post- the University of Wrocław, Wrocław University of socialist countries, including Poland, is their Economics, the University of Opole in Opole, the comparatively low starting position in the global University of Silesia in Katowice and the University competition for students Such a selection of RAUHWARGERS, 2013; ADINA-PETRUTA, 2015) and high schools resulted from the examination of all the intensification of existing demographic threats universities in one historical region. How is HEP shaped when very unfavorable demographic phenomena occur? We try to answer this question by presenting the attitudes of students and University authorities from five
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