Resumen de The Role of Higher Education in the Reform Process in Central and Eastern Europe
It is an extremely difficult task to follow the mainstream of our thinking in the field of higher education and to present, at the same time, the ideas and approaches outside conventional wisdom. The Central and Eastern European region is a strongly differentiated area where the temptation to see ‘unique’ facts and perceptions is very great. In this intellectual climate I would like to try to present a preliminary list of problems: (a) the current transitions in Central and Eastern Europe, (b) the role of higher education in the creation of new systems, (c) the brain drain and the transformation of higher education, (d) teaching versus research in the system of higher education, (e) university versus industry, (f) old versus new institutions, (g) Darwinism versus populism, (h) the new systems of higher education in Central and Eastern Europe, (i) entrance into the twenty‐first century; the last six years of the twentieth century, (j) tentative conclusions.
