Polako, ali sigurno struka i praksa prevladava nad znanošću i teorijom. Recesija je dovela do toga da poslodavcu treba konkretno, stručno znanje, zbog čega se traže kadrovi koji su sa studija izašli s praktičnim znanjem.
Desetljećima su korporativni interesi, koji su promovirali a zatim implementirali svoje neoliberalne „reforme“, nastojali predstaviti dotične kao oblik moderniziranog poboljšanja, koje nemilosrdno napredovanje povijesti nosi prema nesputanoj jurnjavi za profitom „za dobrobit svih“. Desetljećima je ovo groteskno izvrtanje stvarnosti pomagalo da se prikrije nesmiljen napad na ostatke naših ne-još-profitnih usluga i resursa i da se uvjeri mnoge koji su zaklon našli u privilegiranijim dijelovima svijeta da toleriraju takav „razvoj“ kao nužnu cijenu koju trebaju platiti za svoj komfor i sigurnost. Ne više. Dani kada je vrijedila tvrdnja da „nema alternative“ sve brže postaju daleka uspomena, i posvuda po Europi bankarske su se maske počele skrivati iza policijskih vizira.
What I saw a month ago at Millbank was a generation of very young, very angry, very disenfranchised people realising that not doing as you're told, contrary to everything we've been informed, is actually a very effective way of making your voice heard when the parliamentary process has let you down. What I saw two weeks ago in the Whitehall kettle was those same young people learning that if you choose to step out of line you will be mercilessly held back and down by officers of the law who are quite prepared to batter kids into a bloody mess if they deem it necessary. What I saw today was something different, something bigger: no less than the democratic apparatus of the state breaking down entirely.
Over the past few months, the academic and scientific communities of Croatia have been voicing their displeasure with proposed revisions to the national legislation governing the country's universities and its science and higher education organizations. Critics have argued, for example, that the changes would take away university autonomy and freedom of scientific expression because universities and research priorities would come under direct governmental control.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov has outraged the academic community by his latest cost-cutting move to close the state's oldest scientific body, the Bulgarian Academy of Science.
Under the plan, which has been presented as a "restructuring" of the 141-year-old institution, the government would only continue to fund departments that directly serve the state, such as the meteorological and the seismological institutes. "The rest will join the universities," Mr Borisov said.
Članovi radne skupine navodno su vrlo odlučni i kada je riječ o institutu programskih ugovora, odnosno o tomu da se kvote za upise na fakultete i financiranje studija utvrđuju u pregovorima sveučilišta i države. Upisne kvote više ne bi utvrđivali fakulteti, nego bi se definirale kroz programske ugovore i u skladu s potrebama tržišta.
Zastupnica SDP-a u Hrvatskom Saboru Marija Lugarić uputila je danas zastupničko pitanje Predsjednici Vlade RH Jadranki Kosor i Ministru znanosti, obrazovanja i športa Radovanu Fuchsu u vezi primjene "Odrednica razvitka i uporabe računalnih programa s otvorenim kodom u tijelima državne uprave" koje je Vlada RH donijela još 2006. godine, te u vezi primjene programa otvorenog koda unutar institucija MZOŠ, pogotovo u svijetlu činjenice isteka licenčnog ugovora između MZOŠ i Microsofta.
Institut za razvoj obrazovanja izražava duboku zabrinutost zbog činjenice da nacrti Zakona o sveučilištu i Zakona o visokom obrazovanju nigdje ne spominju načela jednakih mogućnosti niti socijalne dimenzije visokog obrazovanja.
One of the most attractive aspects of democracy as a political system is that it makes the interests of the governors broadly coincide with that of the governed: their desire for reelection is supposed to make them want the same things that the electorate wants. Those incentives have become skewed in the contemporary American political economy.
Ten tweede bestaat er een kloof tussen de kenniseconomie en de individuele beleving ervan. We willen meestal geen keuzestress. We hebben behoefte aan zekerheid en sociale banden, niet aan dynamiek en anonimiteit. De nadruk op fysieke productie verblindt ons voor het feit dat juist ervaringen ons relatief gelukkig maken. Daar komt bij dat de economische groei op lange termijn botst met de fysieke grenzen van duurzaamheid.
NVZ RH u potpunosti je suglasno s navedenim dokumentom kao i elaboriranim prijedlozima promjena koji su od ključne važnosti ne samo za Sveučilište u Zagrebu, nego i za sve druge ustanove koje za cilj imaju međunarodnu prepoznatljivost svojih istraživačkih rezultata i pokazatelja uspješnosti u studijima.
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