Current Problems of University Management

The quality of teaching in higher education has been widely discussed for years, in Poland and abroad alike. As regards our domestic situation, the problem has been intensifying since our transformation in 1989 due to the increase in the number of private universities, experiencing difficulties in providing adequate academic staff for didactic purposes. These types of problems are also noticeable abroad; especially in the context of the requirements imposed by the Bologna Process and the recommendations of the European Union. That is why an international research project came into being. The project was financed by the Department of Applied Economics of the Jagiellonian University and it was joined by universities from the USA, Ukraine, Russia, Algeria, Germany and Poland. The results of the research carried out under the auspices of Professor Tadeusz Wawak have been presented in the present monograph. It can be noticed that the problems which particular universities are struggling with are similar. It is also important to say that the completion of the tasks in the scope of pro quality management restructuring at the university demands the implementation of the principles of Total Quality Management.

Excerpt from the review by Professor Stanisław Tkaczyk
The book focuses on the problems of university management. The authors of individual chapters are educational researchers from the USA, Russia, Algeria, the Ukraine and Poland. Each of them presents problems existing in their own academic environment, on the basis of their personal experience. Thus the reader is presented with a full range of currently discussed topics by the institutions responsible for the functioning of the system of education. They comprise, among others, New Economy promoting New University, the process of globalization and integration, the Bologna Process with adjustment to its recommendations and the internationalization of higher education. A comprehensive analysis of the condition of the Ukrainian academic education deserves special attention. Not only does it describe its present state but it also contains its critical assessment and a series of proposals including the need to implement the necessary structural changes in this area and to create a comprehensive system improving the quality of university management. Additionally, the book contains descriptions of new technologies and concepts of education which have emerged recently in the context of the required procedural reform, as well as interesting research findings carried out among students in Algeria.

Excerpt from the review by Professor Tadeusz Grabiński

Spis treści

Introduction – The European Union strategy “Europe 2020 9 Part 1. Improving quality of management 17 1.1. The Quest for the World Class University (Bernard Pitsvada) 17 1.2. Pro quality restructuring of management in higher education (Tadeusz Wawak) 22 1.2.1. Introduction 22 1.2.2. Dilemmas over university strategic management 24 1.2.3. P.F. Drucker on higher education management 26 1.2.4. The challenge by new economy and globalization 27 1.2.5. TQM in the developed market economy 31 1.2.6. The adjustment of higher education in Poland to the Bologna Process recommendations 34 1.2.7. Integrated management 40 1.2.8. Disintegrated management 42 1.2.9. Management crisis 46 1.2.10. The improvement of the quality of management 49 1.2.11. Management integration 52 1.2.12. Conclusion 55 1.3. Analysis of the prospects of higher education reorganization (social research results) (Viktor Nitsevich, Afonina Tatiana Nikolaevna) 59 1.4. Modern communications technology of documentation quality security of higher educational establishment management (P.I. Yukhimenko, Yu. P. Yakymyuk) 66 1.5. Higher education closer to real life. An introduction of initiatives towards improving students’ “quality” on work market (Zbigniew Kłos) 74 1.5.1. Introduction 74 1.5.2. Short history of the Poznan University of Technology and the Faculty of Machines and Transport 75 1.5.3. Innovation project 76 1.5.3.1. Importance of innovation 76 1.5.3.2. Organization of the project 77 1.5.3.3. The run of International Summer School 78 1.5.4. The course 80 1.5.5. Conclusions 82 Part. 2. The evolution of management in higher education 85 2.1. Reformation of management of the higher education institutions as condition, mean and purpose of upgrading the higher education quality in the Ukraine (Peter Leonenko) 85 2.2. The development of university management in the Ukraine (Valerii Grynchtskyi) 100 2.3. Management of innovative development of university (Iryna Shvets) 104 2.4. Some problems of quality management of education in the higher educational establishments of the Ukraine (Halina Tsikh, Nataliia Marynenko) 115 2.5. Improving the quality of higher education in the conditions of transformation processes (Ol’ga Glenbots’ka) 126 2.6. Directions of improvement of multi-level technical education in the Ukraine (Elena Rogatynska) 132 2.7. Issues of reforming a higher education system in the Ukraine in the conditions of globalization (Yuriy Shvets) 138 Part. 3. Creative education and knowledge society 147 3.1. Creative education in the knowledge society (Elżbieta Skrzypek, Adam Skrzypek) 147 3.1.1. The nature and manifestation of creativity 147 3.1.2. The doctrine of creative education 149 3.1.3. Higher education renewed to fit in knowledge based economy 150 3.2. How to produce knowledge at the university both for theory and practice? (Krystyna Lisiecka, Mira Lisiecka-Biełanowicz) 153 3.3. The opinion of the students of the University of Mostaganem in Algeria about the need of restructuring of education and management in higher schools (Ali Bouchentouf Seghier) 160 3.3.1. The aims of the work, research hypotheses and research methodology 160 3.3.2. The course of empirical research 161 3.3.3. Research conclusions 162 3.3.4. Final conclusions 170 3.4. Managing universities in an increasingly global world (Mark Michalski) 171 3.4.1. Introduction 171 3.4.2. Challenges of managing knowledge at universities 172 3.4.3. Globalization of educational skills 173 3.4.4. Quality of universities affects labor market 174 3.4.5. University governance and diverse funding options 175 3.4.6. University president – a visionary leader and key fundraiser 175 3.4.7. Global universities and global entrepreneurial challenges 177 3.5. Analysis of the conditions of the quality system at a higher school (Nadiia Machuga) 178 3.6. Benchmarking in Polish and Ukrainian higher education (Vitalii Naumov, Marta Tutko) 180 3.6.1. Introduction 180 3.6.2. Definitions and types of benchmarking 181 3.6.3. Benchmarking in Polish higher education 183 3.6.4. Benchmarking in Ukrainian higher education 184 3.6.4.1. The present state of the benchmarking concept usage 184 3.6.5. The results of the use of benchmarking 186 3.6.6. Perspectives of the benchmarking concept 187 3.6.7. Benchmarking model for Polish and Ukrainian higher education 188 3.6.8. Conclusions 191 3.7. E-learning role in higher education quality improvement (Sławomir Wawak) 192 3.7.1. Introductory remarks 192 3.7.2. E-learning range of application 193 3.7.3. Benefits of e-learning 195 3.7.4. Shortcomings of e-learning 196 3.7.5. Cost effectiveness 198 3.7.6. Conclusions 199 An attempt at summary 201 References 207