Bìznes Inform (Nov 2018)
The Features of Interaction of Management Entities of the Organizational Autonomy of Higher Educational Institution
Abstract
The article is aimed at analyzing the features of organizational structure of management of higher educational institution, responcible for introducing an organizational autonomy. Relevance of expanding the institutional autonomy of higher educational institution and its constituents is determined. The system of management of organizational autonomy of Ukrainian universities is considered through the prism of adaptation of the national legislative base in the sphere of higher education to the indicators of estimation of the organizational autonomy level in accordance with the methodology of the European Association of Universities. Introduction of the fundamentals of expansion of organizational autonomy into the national higher education system was analyzed in the context of the following system of indicators: procedure for electing and dismissing the head (rector) of higher educational institution, selection of criteria for election rector, his term of office, possibility of including external members in the board of the higher educational institution, definition of academic structure, and the possibility of creating legal entities. Also. the recent changes amendments to the draft law «On amending the Law of Ukraine «On higher education» concerning the change of the management system of higher educational institution are analyzed, and it is specified that the majority of novations contradict the basic principle of the institutional autonomy – self-sufficiency, independence and responsibility of higher educational institution in making decisions on the development of academic freedoms and internal management.
