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"The author analyses the phenomenon of the major growth of private higher education provisions in Central and Eastern Europe by comparing two former Yugoslavian states: Croatia and Macedonia. Theoretically framed by a structural and functional analysis of the relationship between public and private sectors of higher education, the author focuses on the formation, development and role of the private higher education sector in the two countries. Despite the fact that both countries once were part of a single state, the author works out the differences in the development, types and roles of private higher education institutions. He points out that in countries with a long-established tradition of public higher education, private higher education institutions typically have a negative image as concerns the quality of their provision. Thus, governmental policy in Croatia is characterized by a high degree of protectionism of public higher education while Macedonia has actively encouraged the emergence of a private sector in order to deal with increasing student demand. In both countries, a point of contention and increasing criticism is, however, accreditation - a process through which established and mostly public institutions of higher education establish their superiority. Again, in both countries, private higher education institutions continue to be a minority type, but with tendencies to further increase in number and student enrolment. A last part of the contribution discusses the role of private higher education institutions in terms of better or different provisions. The author concludes that the trend in both countries is the idea that private higher education caters to needs and demands that are not taken into account by the public higher education institutions and that they produce well-educated professionals for the modern labor market. However, both countries have not yet reached a stage in which private higher education is recognized as a key component of the higher education sector as a whole." (excerpt)

"The author analyses the phenomenon of the major growth of private higher education provisions in Central and Eastern Europe by comparing two former Yugoslavian states: Croatia and Macedonia. Theoretically framed by a structural and functional analysis of the relationship between public and private sectors of higher education, the author focuses on the formation, development and role of the private higher education sector in the two countries. Despite the fact that both countries once were part of a single state, the author works out the differences in the development, types and roles of private higher education institutions. He points out that in countries with a long-established tradition of public higher education, private higher education institutions typically have a negative image as concerns the quality of their provision. Thus, governmental policy in Croatia is characterized by a high degree of protectionism of public higher education while Macedonia has actively encouraged the emergence of a private sector in order to deal with increasing student demand. In both countries, a point of contention and increasing criticism is, however, accreditation - a process through which established and mostly public institutions of higher education establish their superiority. Again, in both countries, private higher education institutions continue to be a minority type, but with tendencies to further increase in number and student enrolment. A last part of the contribution discusses the role of private higher education institutions in terms of better or different provisions. The author concludes that the trend in both countries is the idea that private higher education caters to needs and demands that are not taken into account by the public higher education institutions and that they produce well-educated professionals for the modern labor market. However, both countries have not yet reached a stage in which private higher education is recognized as a key component of the higher education sector as a whole." (excerpt).