Study of higher education: structure and financing in Russia, Ukraine and the EU

Informazioni relative al progetto

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: INTAS-93-1183

Progetto chiuso

Data di avvio 1 Ottobre 1994

Data di completamento 30 Settembre 1995

Finanziato da

• International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the independent states of the former Soviet Union (INTAS), 1993-

Costo totale

Nessun dato

Contributo UE

€ 30 000,00

Coordinato da

Heriot-Watt University
United Kingdom

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Risultati sfruttabili

Higher education structure and financing in Russia, Ukraine and the European Union

The project reviews and compares higher education systems in the European Union, Russia and Ukraine, focusing on issues of financing, links between teaching and research, institutional reforms, and internal incentives. The topic has empirical and conceptual aspects. On the former, there are simply large amounts of information on respective higher education systems that can be assembled in a useful form. On the latter, there are many models of higher education and of the behaviour of institutions and individuals within them under various conditions. It was important, in the course of this project, not merely to describe various systems, but for the partners to try to gain a deeper understanding of their functioning by applying or adapting relevant models. Through a research workshop in Edinburgh, various more informal meetings and through a research visit to Tomsk in Russia, the project has generated an interesting set of papers covering such topics as: academic careers in European universities, studies of university cost functions (in the UK and Russia), case studies of particular institutions (in Ukraine and Russia). The research confirms our initial hypothesis that it makes sense to analyse universities as if they were institutions maximising some form of objective (related to their principal outputs of teaching and research) subject to constraints to do with their budgets and various organizational factors. At the same time, for the Russian and Ukrainian cases in particular, it is clear that in many important respects behaviour patterns associated with a non market economy are still very much in effect, and influence the functioning of the universities. Hence in the higher education sector, the transition to the market is still very far from complete.