From System Expansion to System Contraction: Access to Higher Education in Poland
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2014
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press
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Access to higher education in Poland is changing due to the demography of smaller cohorts of potential students. Following a demand-driven educational expansion after the collapse of communism in 1989, the higher education system is now contracting. Such expansion/contraction and growth/ decline in European higher education has rarely been researched, and this article can thus provide a possible scenario for what might occur in other European postcommunist countries. On the basis of an analysis of microlevel data from the European Union Survey on Income and Living Conditions, I highlight the consequences of changing demographics for the dilemmas of public funding and admissions criteria in both public and private sectors.
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Polish higher education, Poland, Expansion, contraction, access to higher education, access, fairness, postcommunist, Central Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, transition, relative risk ratio, intergenerational transmission, intergenerational mobility, private higher education, privates, demographics, inequality, selectivity, edcuational mobility, EU-SILC, EU-SILC module on Poverty, odds ratios, Polish universities, 1989, communism, fair access, Eastern Europe, Postcommunist transitions, educational contraction, expansion and contraction, fees, collapse of communism, massification, future of private higher education, decline of private higher education, public-private, public/private
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In: Anna Mountford-Zimdars, David Sabbagh and David Post, eds., Fair Access to Higher Education. Global Perspectives. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2014. 193-215.