A tömegesedés és a hazai intézményi menedzsment
Massification and Institutional Management in Hungarian Higher Education

Summary/Abstract: This article examines how massification has affected state universities in Hungary, which has led to changes in both funding and management. Studies show that after the (now apparently dead) attempts to make moves towards market principles, Hungarian statefunded higher education is slowly moving back to the principles and practices of ‘market socialism’; and the primary reason behind the strengthening of bureaucratic coordination is negation of the idea of the market economy regarding higher education. Furthermore, it is clear that all affected parties are better able to manoeuvre via both application and acceptance of simpler, top-down management principles and techniques than if they had to utilise the more complex and sophisticated ones that are being applied in relation to profitoriented organizations. This article shows that the distinctive representative of a model making a university - which operates partly as an office, partly as an association - more bureaucratic is the figure of the chancellor. However, new efficiency-related problems have arisen with the introduction of the chancellor system.

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