Kwiek, Marek2015-06-122015-06-122014In: Anna Mountford-Zimdars, David Sabbagh and David Post, eds., Fair Access to Higher Education. Global Perspectives. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2014. 193-215.http://hdl.handle.net/10593/13230Access 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.en-USinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPolish higher educationPolandExpansioncontractionaccess to higher educationaccessfairnesspostcommunistCentral EuropeCentral and Eastern Europetransitionrelative risk ratiointergenerational transmissionintergenerational mobilityprivate higher educationprivatesdemographicsinequalityselectivityedcuational mobilityEU-SILCEU-SILC module on Povertyodds ratiosPolish universities1989communismfair accessEastern EuropePostcommunist transitionseducational contractionexpansion and contractionfeescollapse of communismmassificationfuture of private higher educationdecline of private higher educationpublic-privatepublic/privateRozdział z książki