2017, no. 9
COMPETITIVENESS & QUALITY OF EDUCATION

Overcome stagnation of university education: from bureaucratic control to competition of quality

N.S. Rozov

DOI 10.20339/am.09-17.043pp. 43–48Open Access

PDF

Bookmark

Abstract

Analyzed are negative effects of growing bureaucratization of university education. Model of interrelation between variables is constructed. It explains the paradoxical effect: stagnation and even degradation of the education quality is driven by increasing control and reporting which is designed to raise the ratings as factors and aspects of this quality. For each basic component of quality of modern university education defined are necessary practices and structures. By means of the same model interrelations of variables shown are required links between interests of administration, university professors and the quality of education, that are currently absent in most of Russian universities. Also shown is, why and through what mechanisms healthy competition in the sphere of quality of education is more effective than growth of centralized bureaucratic control.

Funding

Работа выполнена при поддержке РГНФ, проект 15-03-00437 «Реформируемая наука. Институциональные и социальные последствия реформы академической науки в России».

Award
15-03-00437

References

  1. Ablezhey, A.M. Quality of higher professional education: experience of complex sociological analysis (example of high schools of Novosibirsk). Vestnik of Tomsk state university. Ser. “Philosophy. Sociology. Politology”. 2010, no. 1 (9), pp. 37-44.

  2. Babintsev, V.P. Bureaucratization of regional high school. Higher education in Russia. 2014, no. 2, pp. 30–37.

  3. Guriev, S.M. Our very higher education. In: Russian education: tendencies and challenges. Moscow, 2009, pp. 63–70.

  4. Inozemtsev, V.L. Is it a myth, good education in Russia. Vedomosti. 03.10.2011.

  5. Khabatskov, A., Leybovich, O. “On the spirit of time and taste”: the docent as a slave. New literature review. 2016, no. 142 (6), pp. 325–348.

  6. Collins, R. Macro-history: essays in sociology of big longitude. Moscow, 2015.

  7. Elaboration and approbation of the method of theoretical history. Novosibirsk, 2001.

  8. Rozov, N.S. Culture, values and development of education. Moscow, 1992.

  9. Rozov, N.S. Philosophy of humanitarian education. Moscow, 1993.

  10. Selezneva, N.A. Quality of higher education as the object of system research. Moscow, 2003.

  11. Sokolov, M.M. Russian university as political system. URL: http://polit.ru/article/2014/03/29/university/

    polit.ru
  12. Stinchcombe, A. Constructing Social Theories. Chicago & London, 1987.