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Does the Institutional Type Matter?: Slovak Higher Education on Its Way to Diversity

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The paper focuses on the issue ofthe development of new institutional types inSlovak higher education. It is based on theempirical research conducted in 2001 among thesample of university graduates in Slovakia. Themain focus of the paper is the comparison ofpublic, non-state and private higher educationwith respect to their background, academicexperience and first labour market experienceafter graduation. The discussion of theseissues has shown that the road of Slovakia toan institutionally diversified higher educationsystem is still at its early stages. However,graduates from existing private highereducation institutions are competitive on thelabour market, and the same is true forgraduates from non-state (church) highereducation. The results of the study can be usedas an argument in favour of furtherdiversification of institutional types in thecontext of Slovak higher education.

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Čaplánová, A. Does the Institutional Type Matter?: Slovak Higher Education on Its Way to Diversity. Tertiary Education and Management 9, 317–340 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025816803931

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