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The Government Response to the Private Sector Expansion in Poland

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Policy Analysis of Structural Reforms in Higher Education

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One of the trademarks of transformation of Polish higher education is its tumultuous and inconsistent path of development driven by the rapid growth of private sector higher education. Such an expansion has been often described as a ‘sudden, shocking and unplanned’ phenomenon which revolutionized the institutional landscape of higher education in Central and Eastern Europe (Levy, 2007, p. 280). Also in Poland, the rise of private higher education is perhaps one of those aspects of the Polish higher education that caused revolutionary and far-reaching changes whose significance can be hardly overestimated. It also attracts scholars’ attention (e.g. Duczmal and Jongbloed, 2007; Antonowicz, 2016; Duczmal, 2006; Kwiek, 2012). However, clearly, there is still a knowledge gap in regards to the analysis of coping with the expansion and with governmental efforts to take control over the process of galloping expansion and securing minimum quality standards in (especially private) higher education.

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    To avoid confusion, PKA was initially named ‘State Accreditation Committee’ but in 2011 it was renamed to Polish Accreditation Committee, although in Polish the abbreviation remains the same (PKA).

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Dominik Antonowicz and Marek Kwiek would like to gratefully acknowledge the support of the National Research Council (NCN), grant number UMO-2013/10/M/HS6/00561.

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  1. Institute of Sociology, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Torun, Poland

    Dominik Antonowicz

  2. Center for Public Policy Studies, University of Poznań, Poznan, Poland

    Marek Kwiek

  3. Center for Hr Education Policy Studies, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Don F. Westerheijden

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Antonowicz, D., Kwiek, M., Westerheijden, D.F. (2017). The Government Response to the Private Sector Expansion in Poland. In: Policy Analysis of Structural Reforms in Higher Education. Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42237-4_6

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