Higher Education, State & Market: Key Issues

Outline

Concept

Governance in HE

Local

Kazakhstani

practices

Global

Global Practices

Practice

Group poster

Government vs Governance

Try to explain the difference considering reforms and policy making in higher educational context

Multiple Choice

Governance includes...

•  the establishment of the legitimate frameworks that regulate interaction 

  between members

• the process of purposeful steering towards shared goals and aspirations of an open community

• reference to higher level strategic thinking

• all options are correct

Multiple Choice

Management, on its part, flows from and is an action-oriented, instrumental expression of  governance, is mainly concerned with the implementation of a set of objectives

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The main appeal of this form of governance is that it places a high premium on ethical conduct, articulating governance in terms of a fiduciary relationship between the providers of higher education and the community they are meant to serve. Which model it is?

• Collegial

• Bureaucratic

• Political

• Corporate

Global Practices

NPM (OECD)

SIGMA project (ENP
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Organizational Structure & Shared Governance

Accountability and Quality Assurance

Multiple Select

Higher education reforms in Kazakhstan have focused on several key strategies:

(more than one correct answer)

• Giving institutions a full control over their curriculum development

• Establishing new institutional models

• Promoting accountability through national and international accreditation

• Aligning its system of higher education with European standards

Multiple Select

What key factors do you think influenced the implementation of the reforms?

(more than one correct answer)

• Soviet Legacy

• Demographic factors

• Cultural norms and beliefs 

• Environmental factors

Practice

Models oh HEG

Elicit pros and cons of the given higher education governance model in groups.

5 min discussion + 2 min per group for presentation

References

• Amaral, A., Tavares, O., & Santos, C. (2013). Higher Education Reform in Portugal: A historical and comparative perspective of the new legal framework for public universities. Higher Education Policy, 26(1), 5–24. https://doi.org/10.1057/hep.2012.29 

• Hartley, M., Gopaul, B., Sagintayeva, A., & Apergenova, R. (2015). Learning autonomy: Higher education reform in Kazakhstan. Higher Education, 72(3), 277–289. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-015-9953-z 

• Shin, J. C., & Jones, G. A. (2022). Governance in higher education. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.99 

• Sultana, R. G. (2012). Higher education governance: A critical mapping of key themes and issues. European Journal of Higher Education, 2(4), 345-369.