Šiuo metu viena iš aktualiausių temų yra aukštojo mokslo ir studijų reforma, mokamos ir nemokamos studijos. Siekiama, kad aukštasis mokslas taptų kiekvienam prieinamas. Ši tema buvo pasirinkta, nes aukštasis mokslas yra aktualus visiems, ekonomikai, visuomenei svarbu, kad kuo daugiau žmonių įgytų aukštesnį išsilavinimą, daugelis asmenų jo siekia. Kuo aukštesnis išsilavinimas, tuo didesnė nauda žmogui, nes tas, kuris išsimokslinęs, turi daugiau galimybių įsidarbinti ir gauti didesnes pajamas. Todėl normalu, kad kuo daugiau žmonių siekia aukštojo išsilavinimo. Aukštojo mokslo reforma yra siekiama padaryti mokslą kokybiškesnį, prieinamesnį Lietuvos jaunimui, atviresnį visai visuomenei, garantuoti socialinę paramą studentams, pakankamą studijų finansavimą. Aukštojo mokslo reforma būtina, nes dabartinė mokslo ir studijų sistema turi daug trūkumų. Manoma, kad pakeitus aukštojo mokslo finansavimo būdus, bus išspręsta daug aukštojo mokslo sektoriaus problemų. Dėl mokesčių už aukštąjį mokslą iškyla daug diskusijų: kas turi mokėti už studijas – studentas ar valstybė. Juk abiem pusėms svarbu, kad kuo daugiau žmonių įgytų aukštąjį išsilavinimą, tačiau valstybei nepakanka lėšų sumokėti už kiekvieno studento studijas, o studentas yra priverstas dirbti ir imti paskolą. darbo tikslas – ištirti Lietuvos aukštojo mokslo finansavimo reformos pokyčius. Iškeltam tikslui pasiekti nustatyti tokie uždaviniai: 1. Išnagrinėti Lietuvos aukštojo mokslo finansavimo pokyčius. 2. Sugretinti aukštojo... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Currently, one of the most important topics of higher education reform, paid and unpaid study. The aim is to make higher education accessible to everyone. This theme was chosen because higher education is relevant to everyone, the economy and society it is important that more people acquire higher education, many people seek it. The higher the education, the greater the benefits for humans, because the one who educated, have more job opportunities and higher income. It is therefore normal that the more people seek higher education. Higher education reform is to make higher quality education, accessible to young people in Lithuania, a more open society as a whole, to ensure social support for students, adequate funding for education. Higher education reform is necessary because the current education system has many flaws. It is believed that changing the ways of financing higher education will solve many problems in the higher education sector. The fees for higher education there is much debate: who should pay for their studies - a student or the state. For both sides it is important that more people acquire higher education, but the state is not enough money to pay for the education of each student and the student is forced to work and take out a loan. The aim - to investigate the Lithuanian higher education funding reform changes. To achieve the aim set out the following tasks: First Examine the Lithuanian higher education funding changes. Second Juxtaposition of higher... [to full text]

<p>In 2001 Sweden founded the government agency of VINNOVA, named after the OECD-endorsed innovation system concept. Criticising the common assumption that countries are passive and uncritical recipients of the approaches promoted by the OECD, this dissertation tries to show that Swedish actors were in fact very active and strategic as they contributed to the national adoption of the concept.</p><p>With inspiration from conceptual history and Quentin Skinner’s analysis of the rhetorical use of concepts, this study focuses on the research funding reform process between 1995 and 2001, investigating how actors trying to defend the contested institution of sectoral research used the innovation system concept to rhetorically legitimise their project. To compare these uses with earlier ways of discussing innovation in Sweden, the innovation debate that arose in relation to the industrial crises of the 1970s and 1990s has also been studied.</p><p>It was found that the early Swedish innovation debate had paid little attention to the university sector. When <i>Research 2000</i> in 1998 proposed that researcher-dominated research councils should be given control over sectoral research funding, a coalition in favour of industrially relevant research mobilised to protect its influence over research funding. The concept was now appropriated and used to rhetorically reframe the universities as part of a system with the main function of promoting innovations. By using the concept it was also possible to draw on the legitimacy offered by the OECD and science.</p>

In 2001 Sweden founded the government agency of VINNOVA, named after the OECD-endorsed innovation system concept. Criticising the common assumption that countries are passive and uncritical recipients of the approaches promoted by the OECD, this dissertation tries to show that Swedish actors were in fact very active and strategic as they contributed to the national adoption of the concept. With inspiration from conceptual history and Quentin Skinner’s analysis of the rhetorical use of concepts, this study focuses on the research funding reform process between 1995 and 2001, investigating how actors trying to defend the contested institution of sectoral research used the innovation system concept to rhetorically legitimise their project. To compare these uses with earlier ways of discussing innovation in Sweden, the innovation debate that arose in relation to the industrial crises of the 1970s and 1990s has also been studied. It was found that the early Swedish innovation debate had paid little attention to the university sector. When Research 2000 in 1998 proposed that researcher-dominated research councils should be given control over sectoral research funding, a coalition in favour of industrially relevant research mobilised to protect its influence over research funding. The concept was now appropriated and used to rhetorically reframe the universities as part of a system with the main function of promoting innovations. By using the concept it was also possible to draw on the legitimacy offered by the OECD and science.