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Public Goals – Private Rules / Private Goals – Public Rules?

The Promises and Threats of Combining the Public with Private Higher Education,

Are Public HE Institutions Moving in the Direction of Private HE?

13th – 14th November 2009, Podčetrtek, Slovenia

We would like to invite you to our fourth annual conference. This year we will focus on a privatization issues in higher education, the promises and threats of combining public with private higher education system, the role of the public authorities and the regulation that is needed for opening higher education area for private institutions, the role of private higher education and the shift that is happening in the public institutions towards business and market approaches.

The conference is prepared and organised by Slovenian Student Union, in cooperation with Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung. It is intended for Slovenian and Croatian higher education area, for public decision makers, higher education leaders, professors, students interested in higher education issues and governance and other interested individuals.

The aim of our conferences is to open a debate on current issues in Higher Education and hopefully stir some development towards developing educational policies concerning the issues debated at the conference.