POSITION AND ROLE OF THE UNIVERSITY IN SOCIETY Assoc. Prof. Ivan OSTROVSKÝ, PhD COMENIUS UNIVERSITY IN BRATISLAVA Bratislava October 2004
Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan (1651) “If we acknowledge that universities represent sources of civil and moral teaching for preachers and country nobility to draw their strength from it and then spread it among people, great care should be paid to keeping these sources clean, neither muddied by godless politicians nor bewitched by bad ghosts.” UNIVERSITY MISSION
UNIVERSITY SOCIETY
UNIVERSITY w government + NP w PARTNERS w state administration w local selfgovernment w public w companies + NGOs +
HIGHER EDUCATION l CHANGES l CHALLENGES non-elite approach = massification, free acces l non-elite approach = massification, free acces l higher education as a business l student as a „customer“ l competition for students l globalisation l less autonomy, more government Quality Assurance l Quality Assurance l Transparency and Accountability Open European Higher Education Area l Open European Higher Education Area EUROPEAN TRENDS
HISTORY OF HE IN SLOVAKIA Academia Istropolitana = first HE institution in Slovakia Slovakia = codification of a reputable Slovak language 19. century - United Kingdom = Academic Rights in a written form First CSR (Slovakia) - 2,5 mil. of population vs. 500 secondary educated people HEIs, > HE students, ~ graduates/ year Comenius University founded > graduates/85 years
w SLOVAKIA
HIGHER EDUCATION 2004 Trnava Nitra Trenčín Bratislava Zvolen Žilina Ružomberok Institutions Number of students > Košice Liptovský Mikuláš Banská Bystrica Prešov < Km 50 421 Komárno 6 Number: 27 Structure: 1x military academy 1x police academy 1x „health care“ university 3 x Academy of arts 4x private HEIs 1x religional HEI 1x ethnical HEI 15 x public „university“
Stupava Nitra Trenčín Bratislava Lučenec Žilina Poprad Početštudentov > Košice Banská Bystrica < Km 50 COMENIUS UNIVERSITY Trnava Prešov Zvolen Ružomberok Liptovský Mikuláš Komárno
UNIVERSITY w source of EDUCATION w source of KNOWLEDGE w source of another DUTIES
UNIVERSITY w source of EDUCATION w source of KNOWLEDGE w source of another DUTIES
UNIVERSITY w source of EDUCATION w applicants/enrolment w students w graduates 4 : 1 = average ratio geographical distribution 40 % local 60% regional NO unemployment national university !
Trends students teachers running costs
Education enrolment graduates 76,5% 94,1% 91,6% 85,5% 91,2% 94,2% 93,5% 87,2% 95,0% efficiency
Education - graduates full time part time foreignerstotalProportion in SR Bc Mgr MUDr Bc. +Mgr. + MUDr ,65% PhD ,98% CU total ,12% CU proportion 18,10%14,45%39,68%17,12% HEIs total ,00%
UNIVERSITY w source of EDUCATION w source of KNOWLEDGE w source of another DUTIES
UNIVERSITY w original research and/or expertise w source of KNOWLEDGE w contract research and/or expertise
SCI publications Slovakia Czech rep Hungary Poland Austria Slovenia Estonia Research performance
SCI publications 2003 Slovakia2264 Academy of Science961 Universities1159 SUT Bratislava245 CU Bratislava475 Research performance
proportions 2001% 2002%2003% Slovakia Academy Universities SUT CU Research performance
Grant´s successfluness VEGA 2004 total (thds. Sk)proportion (%) SUT Bratislava ,4 CU Bratislava ,3 UT Košice ,6 U. Of Agr. Nitra ,6 UPJŠ Košice ,4 UT Zvolen ,3 UVM Košice ,1 U.of Žilina8 7543,7 U. Of Prešov4 2231,8 UE Bratislava3 7451,6 UKF Nitra3 4391,4 under 1%1 0152,9 TOTAL HEIs it is ~2,3% of total state contribution allocated by the quality
UNIVERSITY w source of EDUCATION w source of KNOWLEDGE w source of another DUTIES
UNIVERSITY w cultural and social element w employer w source of another DUTIES
Human resources CU total Teaching staff Research staff
Economy
COMENIUS UNIVERSITY IN BRATISLAVA Hope and trust in our own power are the watchwords for our future for our future
is there a vision?
competing in the learning society...
not competing in the learning society...
l MINISTRY OF EDUCATION WARNING: THINKING IS HARMFULL FOR YOUR HEALTH !