SITUATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION FIELD LIKE OPPORTUNITY OR THREAT FOR (ECONOMIC) FUTURE OF REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA
Journal Title: Zbornik radova Ekonomskog fakulteta Brcko - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue 12
Abstract
Education is a base of any kind of social development. Higher education has special role in process of education on the way that it has to direct basic knowledge learned at primary and secondary education into special knowledge that should be characteristic for graduate who got “vise” for work in certain field. Insufficiently coordinated operations of authority, private sector and higher education institutions makes system of higher education in Republic of Srpska to be dysfunctional. An objective of the paper is to instigate discussion and to suggest guidelines for cooperation of authority, private sector and higher education institutions, in order that their cooperation becomes opportunity, rather than threat for future of Republic of Srpska. In the paper will be used method of analysis, synthesis, induction and comparison to determine existing situation and opportunities for development of higher education in Republic of Srpska. Also, authors created indicators for determining compliance of enrollment policy of public universities with labor market needs in Republic of Srpska. Results of analysis point out that higher education intitutions’ network in Republic of Srpska isn’t adequately coordinated and dimensioned, that results with uncontrolled growth of total number of enrolled students on higher education institution, that increased from 10% to 53% of cohorts in period from 2002 to 2014. Analysis of compliance of enrollment policy with labor market needs showed that only 23% of education profiles is complied with labor market needs, and that on average there is no correlation between market needs and enrollment policy of public universities. There is necessary of higher level coordination of education policy, but also it is necessary to adopt new concepts like long life learning.
Authors and Affiliations
Stanko Stanić, Bojan Kresojević
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