The Challenges for higher education research in Poland
The Challenges for higher education research in Poland

Summary/Abstract: Research in higher education has a short but turbulent history in Poland. This paper tries to addressthe development of the Polish research on higher education. By doing so, it starts with the referenceto philosophical discourse on universities in the 19th and early the 20th century. It discusses firstsystematic attempts aiming to explore selected aspects of higher education. Furthermore, the paperinvestigates the reasons behind the expansion of research on higher education in Europe in regardsto a growing demand for research based expertise of a new phenomena, namely ‘mass higher education’.Most importantly the need for knowledge has also been expressed mostly by national governmentswhich bear the responsibility for higher education policy. In the final section, the paperdiscusses the rise and fall of higher education re

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