From System Expansion to System Contraction. Access to Higher Education in Poland
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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, higher education reforms, equity, equitable access, social justice, university reforms, EU-SILC data, accessibility, demographics, private higher education, private sector, public-private, private sector growth, private sector decline, tuition fees, cost-sharing, public funding, university funding, public policy, higher education research, comparative education, international education, intergenerational transmission, Polish reforms, postcommunism, transition, market reforms, massification, universalization, micro-level data, EU Survey on Income and Living Conditions, Poland
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Comparative Education Review. Vol. 57. No. 3, 2013, pp. 553-576