Re-Learning Higher Education in the Age of Convergence: Example of Lithuania

Autor/in	Ulvydiene, Loreta
Titel	Re-Learning Higher Education in the Age of Convergence: Example of Lithuania
Quelle	In: Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 13 (2012) 4, S.320-332 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1302-6488
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Information Technology; Technology Transfer; Foreign Countries; Educational Change; Macroeconomics; Educational Quality; Competition; College Role; School Business Relationship; Educational Innovation; International Cooperation; Student Mobility; Academic Degrees; Educational History; Science Education; Lithuania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Informationstechnologie; Technologietransfer; Ausland; Bildungsreform; Makroökonomie; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Wettkampf; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Internationale Kooperation; Internationale Zusammenarbeit; Student; Students; Mobility; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Mobilität; Degree; Degrees; Academic level graduation; Akademischer Grad; Hochschulabschluss; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Litauen
Abstract	Since May of 1999, 46 European countries have been engaged in reconstructing their higher education systems to bring about a greater degree of "convergence," i.e. a move toward common reference points and operating procedures to create a European Higher Education Area. Education has always played an important role in the development of Lithuania, with long and strong traditions as a country with highly educated scientists and cutting-edge research in various fields. In April 2009, the Seimas passed a new Law on Science and Studies, which provides for a major reform of higher education. In recent years there has been an increasing focus on the role universities play in the economy and impact they make in promoting innovation and raising international competitiveness. But until recently there has been a prescriptive view of university-business interactions with a narrow focus on technology transfer. Although technology transfer may be important, it is also necessary to focus on the more diverse and varied impacts of business-university knowledge exchange relations. Thus, I discuss changes in higher education that were implemented in Lithuania during the period of 1992-2012, i. e. Student baskets, notorious optimization of university network in Lithuania, the development of Lithuanian science valleys, etc. In my survey I rely upon an IHEP (Institute for Higher Education Policy) expert Cliff Adelman's idea that the Bologna Process is an analogue to the macroeconomic theory of convergence, the ways in which nations move from different stages of development to a more-or-less common platform of performance. Macroeconomic historians have demonstrated time-and-again: nations that learn from other nations grow; those that do not learn do not. Ultimately, I arrive at a conclusion that reforms are essential and indispensable but answer the purpose only when higher quality in education is achieved. (Contains 2 tables and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10