Exploring the Universities’ Resilience in Times of Crisis by Reporting to the Pattern of the National Culture
Exploring the Universities’ Resilience in Times of Crisis by Reporting to the Pattern of the National Culture

Author(s): Dragos Valentin Dinca, Cristina Elena Nicolescu, Ionut Bogdan Berceanu
Subject(s): Higher Education , Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Udruženje ekonomista i menadžera Balkana
Keywords: The EU universities' resilience; Public expenditure; Hofstede's model of national culture
Summary/Abstract: Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, superior education demonstrated remarkable adaptability during crises, particularly by swiftly embracing a borderless virtual learning environment. From this perspective, the paper is focused on the resilience of the university educational system, underlining the importance of two key pillars that model it: the pattern of national culture and the level of public spending on education. To this end and by reference to Hofstede’s cultural dimensions theory, the paper highlights that the pattern of national culture explains a good deal of the levels of budget allocations on education between 2007-2020 of the current 27 EU member states. Thus, beyond the good practices identified in the institutional development plan by implementing a new management model, the results of the paper analysis indicate the need to consolidate the national educational policies through proper financing of the field, towards achieving the European Education Area.

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