Sociology of Reforms and Perspectives in Higher Education
Sociology of Reforms and Perspectives in Higher Education

Summary/Abstract: Nowadays, reforms have become an important part in national higher education systems. Since 2003, with the signing of the Bologna Declaration, apart from the interrelation with the overall social system, opportunities are given to policy-makers and reformists in Macedonia in terms of the Europeanization of the whole sector as such. The 3+2+3 system, which is being rounded up within the last two years, brought up the issue of curriculum reforms, evaluation of institutions and overall performance improvement in working with students. In the last decade, higher education has been the target of numerous changes, modifications and amendments. University professors, politicians, other civil sector activists and domestic and foreign experts have been dealing a lot with the new challenges. The idea was to provide students with a more innovative and applicative approach to meet the latest needs of the community and industry. However, the principal question is whether these frameworks, legal amendments, evaluations, development strategies, etc., have positively influenced in one way or the other the overall educational life in Macedonia. This paper aims at focusing on the crucial issues related to the frequent change of educational policies in the higher education area in Macedonia. In recent years, there has been an intensified activity in terms of the future of education in general and this has produced huge debates, which the government refers to as intentions for increasing the quality of higher education.

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