Polish higher education: Reform reversed

The Two Decades of Privatization in Polish Higher Education

The general theme of coping with financial austerity has been prominent in thinking about the future of public higher education over the last two decades. Such thinking is often accompanied by a related theme in the future of public services generally—that of privatization. The generally tight fiscal environment for public services, including higher education, has not relaxed and, in many count...

Reform of Higher Education Research Assessment and Funding

1 We are pleased to respond to the Department for Education and Skills’ consultation on the Reform of higher education research assessment and funding (DfES 2006)1 on behalf of the UK Computing Research Committee (UKCRC). The UK Computing Research Committee (UKCRC), an Expert Panel of the British Computer Society, the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the Council of Professors and H...

Higher Education Reform in India: Prospects and Challenges

The system of higher education now existing in India was originally implanted by the British rulers in the mid-19th century to serve the colonial economic, political and administrative interests, and in particular, to consolidate and maintain their dominance in the country. It was inherited by the state managers after independence (in 1947) as a colonial legacy, and has been expanded phenomenal...

INCOME CONTINGENT LOANS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION International Reform

Clinical Legal Education and the Reform of the Higher Legal Education System in China

This Article presents an overview of the higher legal education system in China: its structure, purposes, teaching methods, and problems. The Article suggests ways to reform China’s higher legal education system, including clinical legal education, one of the new practical teaching methods that has been used by many law schools in China with promising results. CLINICAL LEGAL EDUCATION AND THE R...