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Revising and Enhancing CPRs: A Strategic Approach for Higher Education Improvement

This document outlines steps to revise and enhance the draft Country Policy Reviews (CPRs) by integrating an analytical and interpretative focus based on recent discussions. Key areas for assessment include system evolution, autonomy versus regulation, and quality assurance. Emphasis is placed on aligning higher education outcomes with labor market needs and optimizing funding mechanisms. The aim is not to complicate existing frameworks but to reinforce policy direction and convey central messages for future improvements in higher education across countries.

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Revising and Enhancing CPRs: A Strategic Approach for Higher Education Improvement

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  1. CPRs: Next steps April 17, 2006

  2. 1st step • We need to revise, reorganize, complete, and improve the draft CPRs in the light of yesterdays’ comments and discussions • As much as possible use a set of commonindicators that will facilitate comparisons

  3. 2nd step • We then need to integrate a more analytical or interpretative focus. • Suggested areas: • System evolution and adaptation to a market economy • Autonomy and regulation • Quality assurance • He outcomes in relation to labor market needs • Funding

  4. Area: 1 • System evolution and adaptation. Focus on: • Normative and policy instruments • Institutional structure (number, diversity) • Privatization • System governance • Institutional governance • Tensions and debates

  5. Area 2 • Autonomy and regulation in HE at the system and institutional levels. Focus on: • Admission procedures • Curriculum content and management • Degree structure (an the movement towards Bologna) • Teaching and faculty • Problems, tensions, debates

  6. Area 3: • Quality assurance procedures. Focus on: • Instruments used • Implementation • Impact • Management (centralized/decentralized; one/multiple agencies; how HE institutions participate; other stakeholders participation) • Strengths and weaknesses; problems, tensions, debates

  7. Area: 4 • HE outcomes in relation to labor market needs. Focus on: • Market or manpower-planning driven • Qualitative or quantitative planning • Graduate’s labor market insertion: employment and unemployment, salaries, migration • Problems, tensions, debates

  8. Area: 5 • Funding modalities and mechanisms. Focus on: • Financing: of institutions, core educational function and students, and research • Modalities used for public funding: line item budgets – block grants, student grants/loans, formula funding, performance based funding, etc. • Private funding: student fees, form other private entities • Income generated by institutions (entrepreneurial activities) • Balance between sources and modalities • Problems, tensions, debates

  9. Concluding remarks • The idea is not to add new sections but to integrate the analytical and interpretative focus in the already existing CPRs. • The idea is now to strengthen the policy approach and to underline a few central messages that are relevant for future policy in each country • From a formal point of view this should be reflected in the Executive Summary of each CPR

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