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Higher education in the globalized world: modern trends in management, funding and quality assurance

Economic Annals-XXI

Economic Annals-ХХI: Volume 179, Issue 9-10, Pages: 53-65

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Marchenko, O., & Sydorenko, N. (2019). Higher education in the globalized world: modern trends in management, funding and quality assurance. Economic Annals-XXI, 179(9-10), 53-65. doi: https://doi.org/10.21003/ea.V179-05

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Olena Marchenko
D.Sc. (Philosophy),
Associate Professor,
Head, Department of the Organization of Scientific Work,
Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs
26 Gagarin Ave., Dnipro, 49005, Ukraine
lina728@ukr.net
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2069-9942

Nataliia Sydorenko
PhD (Public Administration),
Associate Professor of the Department of Administration and Management,
Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs
26 Gagarin Ave., Dnipro, 49005, Ukraine
life784n@gmail.com
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4622-2779

Abstract. The article studies the distinction between the approaches to management of educational systems and their funding within two civilizational dimensions – the Western and the Eastern ones. Through the example of specific countries that have provisionally been referred to within the groups which were previously considered to be polarized we have attempted to substantiate the developmental trends of higher education in the contemporary globalized world. The authors refute the traditional perception of both the Western and the Eastern educational models and prove that their transformation has a mirror nature: attributes of one of the models in the contemporary conditions become characteristic of the other. Resulting from these transformations, will there emerge a universal and simultaneously effective system of higher education and will this allow us to solve the problem of harmonizing of the material and the spiritual within the educational dimension in the conditions of the growing dehumanization of society? The authors have provided their view on the solution of the mentioned scope of study within the present article.

Keywords: Higher Education; Western Model; Eastern Model; State; Private Expenditures on Education; Socio-cultural Factors; Economic Factors; Transformation of Higher Education

JEL Сlassification: І22; І23; І25; Н52

Acknowledgements and Funding: The authors received no direct funding for this research.

Contribution: The authors contributed equally to this work.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21003/ea.V179-05

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Received 27.08.2019
Received in revised form 14.09.2019
Accepted 19.09.2019
Available online 11.11.2019

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