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Lifelong Learning and Changes of the University

Cjeloživotno učenje i promjene sveučilišta

Author(s): Tihomir Žiljak / Language(s): English / Issue: 09/2012

Keywords: university; lifelong learning; ideas; institutions; Bologna process;

In the article the author analyses how lifelong learning as a new idea in education policy is related to institutional changes in higher education. The primary emphasis in the study is on the role of ideas, interests and intuitions in changing education policy. Institutional change and new ideas in higher education policy are explained through the implementation of the lifelong learning concept in Olsen’s four models of the university. The article describes lifelong learning as a new policy idea which brings fundamental change from education to learning, and bridges the distinctive positions of academic and vocational tertiary education. The article suggests that actors from the political and economic environments determine changes to the university. In this context the influence of lifelong learning on the understanding, prescription and implementation of institutional changes in education policies is analyzed and political justifications of these changes are addressed. The author analyses changes in governance, curriculum and funding influenced by the lifelong learning concept. The article describes changes in the university curriculum and funding as a result of non-traditional students’ entrance. The justifications for the autonomy of university governance are stressed as well as access, recognition, modularisation and vocationalisation of the curriculum. A qualification framework is identified as a part of curriculum reform, but also as a policy instrument for national and European political and economic goals.

Crisis in the idea of the university and its causes. Selected problems

Crisis in the idea of the university and its causes. Selected problems

Author(s): Seweryn Leszczyński / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2012

Keywords: university; crisis; postmodernism; values; science; economy

The article is focused on the three phenomena of the crisis in the idea of the university: the fashion of postmodernism, re-evaluation of the values, link between science and the economy. The author tried to show that these processes lead to irreversible changes in thinking about the idea of university. The changes include social processes in the long period of time. In this way we can say that these phenomena can be considered as causes of this crisis. The author does not decide whether this is the fact. But it seems to be true. Anyway, we have to be careful in consideration of the crisis in the idea of the university: here nothing is certain. The article stays open to new ideas which may explain this topic

University-Industry Collaboration in the European Regional Context: the Cases of Galicia and Apulia Region

University-Industry Collaboration in the European Regional Context: the Cases of Galicia and Apulia Region

Author(s): Manuel Gonzalez Lopez,Francesco Losurdo,Ivano Dileo / Language(s): / Issue: 3/2014

Keywords: university; industry; collaboration; regions

Universities are one of the key actors within national and regional innovation systems. The nature of university-industry collaboration has changed during the last decades and it varies across countries and regions. Different factors determine the interaction among both organizations, from those related to the industrial structure of the territory to others related to institutional and legal frameworks. In this paper we aim at adding to the understanding of this process based on the comparison between two European regions, Apulia in Italy and Galicia in Spain. Our results show that a progressive transition from a separated to a more integrated approach has occurred at the relational framework affecting universities and industry in both regions. Public policies, particularly from the regional level, have been relevant for promoting university-industry collaboration in Galicia and Apulia. Nevertheless, there still remain cultural and institutional barriers, both from the academy and business sphere, which impede a closer and more fruitful interaction. Besides, the poor innovative culture of traditional industries which dominate in both regions, might affect university-industry interaction. However, an adjustment of the university offer in terms of research is also needed as we observe that collaboration is too much biased by the university scientific and departmental specialization and too little by local and regional industrial specialization.

Songs of Lutherans from Cieszyn Silesia

Songs of Lutherans from Cieszyn Silesia

Author(s): Arleta Nawrocka-Wysocka / Language(s): English / Issue: 04 (13)/2014

Keywords: folk music;Silesia folk;Silesia

The role of singing in the Lutheran communities of Cieszyn Silesia dates back hundreds of years. This singing tradition, while fading since before the Second World War, provides insight into the influence of the folk life on the faithful and its devotion to song.

MIGRATION AND THE METROPOLIS – AN EXAMPLE OF LOWER SILESIA

MIGRATION AND THE METROPOLIS – AN EXAMPLE OF LOWER SILESIA

Author(s): Alina Kulczyk-Dynowska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2012

Keywords: metropolisation; migration

University - Liberty - Selflessness. The traditional ethos and contemporary changes in the identity of University

Uniwersytet – wolność – bezinteresowność. Tradycyjny etos i współczesne przemiany tożsamości uniwersytetu

Author(s): Marek Rembierz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 18/2015

Keywords: university; liberty; autonomy; selfl essness; transformations of university identity;

What currently becomes more and more vivid is the public debate on the transformations in the functioning of university and on their directions. In order to focus properly on the problems undertaken here, it is worth to refer to some remarks on academic liberty and the liberty of studying, which are formulated in the context of describing the secret university education in Poland under the Nazi occupation. It is this secret teaching, based on self-organization and free from an administrative institutional framework, which turns out to be the model of university liberty. This peculiar experience of academic freedom, showing the essence of academic learning and teaching, should be remembered and taken into account in all political and administrative (or even bureaucratic) attempts at regulating the functioning of autonomic university and other academic level schools.

TRANSITION FROM UNIVERSITY TO WORK IN A ROMANIAN POSTSOCIALIST CITY: A CASE STUDY IN ORADEA

TRANSITION FROM UNIVERSITY TO WORK IN A ROMANIAN POSTSOCIALIST CITY: A CASE STUDY IN ORADEA

Author(s): Serban Oláh,Dragoş DARABANEANU,Gavril Flora / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2015

Keywords: university; work; labor market; educational investment; graduates

In the post-socialist period, the State University become an important player on educational market area of North West of Romania (University of Oradea) and private or private-confessional universities have been founded in Oradea: Christian Partium University (with Hungarian as teaching language, set up upon the initiative of the Reformed and RomanCatholic Churches in order to cater for the higher education needs of the Hungarian minority), Emanuel University founded by Baptist community) and Agora University ( founded by a former vice-rector of University of Oradea). The article investigates the transition from university to work as a concern regarding of concentration of a relative high number of university graduates. The main conclusions will support to elaborate the future and adequate measures in order to correlate the educational market with labour market on Oradea area.

Translating Silesia

Wyłónowiony świat

Author(s): Ingmar Villqist / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2017

Keywords: Śląsk;edukacja regionalna;

Regional education... Sounds scary and encourages yawning. You have to be careful. Especially in such a region as our Upper Silesia.

Pull Factors Attracting Romanian Students to Babeș-Bolyai University

Pull Factors Attracting Romanian Students to Babeș-Bolyai University

Author(s): Simona Mălăescu,Attila Gábora,Sonia Pavlenko / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2017

Keywords: university; higher education; student recruitment; pull factors;

Student recruitment and the geographic area from where a university is recruiting its students play a key part in institutional development and in the position a university holds in national and international rankings. Therefore, successful universities assign important resources to attracting students to the educational programmes they offer. The location of the university also plays an important role in student motivation when choosing an educational offer. In this article, we focus on the main pull factors that attract students to Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, we analyze how the city and the university’s pull factors have changed in the past years, assuming that these changes, namely the institution’s and the city’s increasing attractiveness, had an influence on the recruitment area of students. Our hypothesis is that the increasing attractiveness leads to more students coming from a national recruitment area, instead of local and regional areas, where the main base of students of the institution used to be in the past. In the second part of this article we present recruitment data for the past five years, focusing on the recruitment area and the county of origin of the students, in order to confirm our hypothesis.

The Future of the University

Die Zukunft der Universität

Author(s): Nikolaus Müller-Schöll / Language(s): German / Issue: 1/2011

Keywords: university; a crisis; reform; the future; the university without conditions; event; others;

Starting from the settings contained in the history of the modern university, request that he be appointed and who is present in both the past and in contemporary conflicts on the basis of his concept and ideas, to take an attempt to establish a critical perspective to the university - precisely: every current University. According to the hypothesis, in times of crisis the University to discuss the practical and philosophical issues that were greater than any present and future of the University opened. The future opens only if the crisis does not negate nor suppressed, but affirms and recognizes as a chance to re-establish the inherited institutions. After reviewing the two, in my opinion, the main crisis of the University, around 1800. and 1968. (seen from current position), in the context of the texts of Jacques Derrida, especially his essay "L'université sans conditions" ("University without conditions"), I will show that the future of the University can only think of one starting in each university really existing transcendent instance that it starts but it is not exhausted. Derrida proposes that it be marked as "Event" (and might be translated as: appearance / Second announcement). In it we see the reformulation of a transcendent potential of the University, who notes in his every crisis. In line with contemporary interests, we will deal with historical and theoretical facts only if they provided answers to them are finding the current misery. Finally, they should count at least in the form of keywords.

Why Catholic University?

Po co uniwersytet katolicki?

Author(s): Piotr Jaroszyński / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 27/2017

Keywords: university; culture; Academy; Lyceum; Christianity; the humanities;

The crisis of university is the occasion for cogitation on the specifics of university as university and as Catholic university. Three major phases of functioning of universities animated by special cognitive passion may be perceived in the history of Western culture. Within the first pre-university phase, the cognitive passion was focused on the reality around man and the attempt to ultimately account for it. Plato’s Academy and Aristotle’s Lyceum were the outcome of that approach. Within the second phase, the cognitive passion was focused on God, which specifically characterised Christianity associating Revelation with the capacity to comprehend reality. Within the third phase, university adopted the form of a polytechnic for which knowledge is most of all the power manifested as the passion of ruling over the world. That last phase has prevailed until today and constitutes the threat to the humanities. The humanities should be revived by means of regaining respect for truth and image of man as human being. And these two tasks should be incorporated into the mission of Catholic university.

Identifying Critical Factors in Managing University Technology Transfer and Commercialization Units

Identifying Critical Factors in Managing University Technology Transfer and Commercialization Units

Author(s): Pere Condom,Josep Llach,Andrea Bikfalvi / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2011

Keywords: university; Science Park; technology transfer; commercialization; spin-off;

Given the increasing interest worldwide in the growth of new technology-based companies, the aim of the present paper is to contribute to the future design of patent commercialization and spin-off creation units on behalf of university authorities and national or regional innovation agencies. Our analysis was based on 52 public technology transfer units. Six unit typologies were identified in the analysis. From the results, the proposed recommendations are focused on some critical factors such as a university’s research mass, specialized personnel of the technology transfer units, their profile, expertise and cost, as well as ideas collected from some experts in the field.

SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIVERSITY

ДРУШТВЕНО-КУЛТУРНО ДЈЕЛАЊЕ УНИВЕРЗИТЕТА

Author(s): Ratko Božović / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 1-2/2001

Keywords: university; education; knowledge; science; culture; professors; students;

The paper deals with the meaning of university and its value (achievement of value) in a society, so, according to that, as with a specific aspect of culture. Namely, it is a fact that historically achieved values of mankind comprise the achievements in the area of scientific research as well as those in the field of acquiring the knowledge. That is why today, as well as ever, every organized society emphasizes the importance and meaning of educational system, especially of high education, as a special social and cultural value. The more university or faculty successfully fulfills its basic role – researching and teaching activities, the better is the way it realizes its cultural mission. Every democratically open society must be aware of the truth that an autonomous acting of a university does more credit to its governing (political and industrial) structures than in the case when those structures impose themselves as tutors to the university, directing its activities. And every realization of autonomy of university is one of the basic determinants of the realization of the cultural mission of any university.

Future Opportunities for Spatial Development of the University in Line with Contemporary City Concepts

Future Opportunities for Spatial Development of the University in Line with Contemporary City Concepts

Author(s): Adelina Tahiri,Bujar Demjaha,Lucija Momirski Ažman / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2019

Keywords: university; spatial development; sustainable city; smart city; resilient city;

The university as a knowledge-intense space-also referred to as the brain of the city-is one of the key urban factors whose role is gradually being repositioned in the city and society during its social and urban transformation. New concepts of cities have entered professional discourses, and six categories were found to be conceptually distinct enough to be seen as supported by a specific body of theories. The research goal for this study is to define three of these-the sustainable city, smart city and resilient city—and the evolving university-city co-influencing relationship. The main methods used for this study are the analytical and descriptive methods, and the research materials are drawn from wide-ranging literature, such as books, research articles, published analyses, reports, urban plans, and other documents. We draw a conclusion that universities are vital urban actors in terms of sustainable, smart and resilient developments. Through two case studies, including University of Prishtina, dimensions of campus ecosystems critical to sustainability and resilience are highlighted, which should be a component of any comprehensive future spatial development of the university.

Basic Values of University

Podstawowe wartości uniwersytetu

Author(s): Jerzy Marian Brzeziński / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2019

Keywords: university; complementarity of research and education; autonomy; freedom; truth; tolerance; sense of community

In the article the author identifies three missions of the classic Humboldtean university: (a) research, (b) education, (c) formation. It is possible to fulfil these missions thoroughly if the canon of basic values originating from the classic vision of university (formulated by Wilhelm von Humboldt, the founder of the Humboldt University of Berlin), which defines axiological university space, is respected. It encompasses such values as (1) complementarity of research and education, (2) autonomy, (3) freedom, (4) truth, (5) tolerance, (6) sense of community. In the author’s view, modern universities seem to neglect the formative mission. It ought to be remembered, however, how important it is for universities to shape future elites which would participate actively in the creation of free, democratic, non-prejudiced and creative society.

Can the Unity of the University Be Restored in Our Age?

Can the Unity of the University Be Restored in Our Age?

Author(s): Balázs M. Mezei / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2019

Keywords: university; renewal of the Catholic university; philosophy of revelation; philosophy of the people; quantum physics; awareness research; Ex Corde Ecclesiae; Fides et Ratio;

In this paper I argue that the intellectual unity of the university, in particular the Catholic university, can and must be restored. This becomes clear in the light of a new reading of the Apostolic Constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae and the Encyclical Fides et Ratio—both promulgated with the intention to reform university research and teaching. I offer a reconsideration of these documents on the basis of what I call a ‘radical philosophical theology of revelation,’ and also on the basis of a ‘philosophy of the people’ developed with respect to the intellectual background of Pope Francis. If the intellectual unity of the Catholic university is restored along these lines, the question of the genuine community of university researchers and teachers can be addressed anew. In particular, I argue that the philosophical basis of Catholic universities needs to be reinterpreted and linked to important fi elds of contemporary science, especially quantum theory and awareness study. As I show in a Venn-diagram, the various layers of the unity of university research, teaching and community can be connected to one another in a systemic way in which philosophy, in particular the philosophy of revelation, plays the fundamental role.

The university as a community, or the university in a community? From the development of social sciences towards the university’s third mission

Univerzitet kao zajednica ili univerzitet u zajednici? Od razvoja društvenih nauka ka trećoj misiji univerziteta

Author(s): Biljana S. Lungulov,Aleksej J. Kišjuhas / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 3/2021

Keywords: university; sociasciences; third mission; social community; education reform

This paper begins with a sociohistorical analysis of the university as a specific community of interacting intellectuals, which enabled the creation of an epistemological and institutional core for the development of the social sciences. On the other hand, we critically consider and analyze the contemporary university reforms in Europe, in terms of bringing universities and the social community closer together through the social dimension, as well as the dimensions of entrepreneurship and innovation. This paper aims to investigate the role of the university from its inception as a specific and unique intellectual community, towards its current aspirations to connect and integrate with the wider community. Two research tasks have been defined: the first refers to determining the importance of the interaction among intellectuals within the university for the production of scientific knowledge, while the second task involves analyzing the importance of interaction between the university and the social community through the university’s third mission. The research results indicate that the institutional and interactionist framework for the establishment of the university as an institution that communicates with the wider community was gradually formed through its various roles and reforms in the course of social history. However, we also conclude that the social role of the university has always been relatively complementary to the current third mission requirements, and with the historical development of knowledge concerning human society.

The pedagogical implications of the socially relevant university

Педагошке импликације друштвено релевантног универзитетa

Author(s): Radovan Grandić,Maja Bosanac / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 2/2019

Keywords: university; social relevance; education goals; stakeholder groups; third mission of universities

From the founding of the first universities in the Middle Ages to the modern university in the period of globalization, universities have been created according to the prevailing social, cultural, economic and political conditions. Contemporary universities are faced with numerous demands from the external environment which expects social problems to be solved through education. In this context goals of education are also subject to constant redefinition and alignment with the needs of new social realities. The aim of the paper is to examine the implications of a socially relevant university from the perspective of two approaches: (a) concerns about the future of the university, the very idea of the university itself, and the reduction of the role of universities as critics of society; (b) the importance and necessity of opening a university to the community in order to contribute to society. Both approaches have been permeated within the analytical approach to the challenges facing the modern university, as well as within the study of the social relevance of the university which is linked to the third mission of the university. We then present the current initiatives that advocate the opening of universities towards the environment, the project Institutional Framework for the Development of the Third Mission of the University, as well as the Strategy for the Development of Education in the Republic of Serbia until 2020. Through elaboration of the relevant literature, we also present the pedagogical implications of a socially relevant university. In conclusion, we emphasize that the pluralism of analytical and critical approaches is the only adequate way to consider the relation of the university and its environment as a whole.

Epistemological Aspects of the Discourse on University

Epistemologiczne aspekty dyskursu o uniwersytecie

Author(s): Ewa Solska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: university; Science and Technology Studies; consilience; deep humanities; anthropocene

Epistemological Aspects of the Discourse on University The subject of the article oscillates around selected topics of science and technology studies in relation to the university space of institutionalization of science. The present proposition to extend metascience so that it comprises studies on the university and the anthropocene discourse is combined with an attempt to present these studies in the perspective of deep humanities, through consilience and the outline of the socio-cultural history of the university. Hence, I present here the view of social epistemology in the science in context discourse (in the style of Alvin Goldman rather than Thomas Kuhn), understood as a science about the social dimensions of knowledge, with an emphasis on epistemic processes and practices that provide space for the main factors influencing our beliefs, especially acts of communication and institutional structures. In this respect, this text can also be treated as a gloss to the contemporary dispute about the university and a reminder that this dispute should also be a reference point for the theory of social knowledge, taking into account the different contexts of interactions and their institutional complexity in which scientific facts (and most cognitive acts) are made.

Numismatics at the University of Cluj

Numismatica la Universitatea din Cluj

Author(s): Radu Ardevan / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 14/2022

Keywords: university; Cluj; numismatics; research; Antiquity; Middle ages; modern medals;

Articolul urmăreşte evoluţia preocupărilor Universităţii din Cluj pentru studiul monedelor. Universitatea maghiară a început să predea numismatică antică la începutul secolului al XX-lea. În perioada interbelică, noua Universitate Română nu a mai cultivat numismatica în procesul didactic, în ciuda progresului evident în cercetarea în domeniu. În timpul dictaturii comuniste, cu toate constrângerile ideologice, cercetarea şi publicarea materialelor monetare a făcut progrese mari, fără ca numismatica să fie introdusă ca materie de studiu. Abia după 1990 s-au reluat la Cluj cursurile universitare de numismatică antică, cu efecte benefice asupra cercetării. A început şi studiul sistematic al medaliilor moderne. Din păcate, numismatica medievală continuă să fie neglijată. Sunt necesare eforturi viitoare pentru a menţine specialitatea la un nivel european competitiv.