Private Higher Education.

This blog I dedicated to my thesis topic connected to the private higher education, somehow explain the reason for students to  choose private institutions.

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The beginning of the private higher education started from the burning issue of mass higher education (Teixeira, Rocha, Biscaia&Cardoso, 2013). The large student population desired to be educated and at the same time education expansion was in diversification of the educational programs (Teixeira et al., 2013). It increased “policy interest in the development of diverse types of training” (Teixeira et al., 2013, p.4955). The public and private institutions compete with each other for the best educational programs offered to the students (Teixeira et al., 2013). This means that the private higher education gives more freedom in choosing specialization, the public universities have standard programs.

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The scholars raised the question of the quality offered by the private institutions because the main goal of private universities is a profit (Hensley, Galilee-Belfer&Lee, 2013). However, the private universities perform the duties of the public universities, allocating students that are not suited to the admissions of public ones. No matter of the fact that private institutions rely on tuition fee, they meet the demands of the market and students’ interest too (Teixeira et al., 2013, p.4950). The empirical research done by Teixeira et al. (2013) demonstrated that the programs offered by private universities are more specialized than in public and “more responsive to shifts in the demand” (Teixeira et al., 2013, p. 4957).

In the Kazakhstani context, the private higher education has doubtful reputation. The citizens of Kazakhstan enroll in private institutions in order to get a diploma (diploma mill), and most of the universities are “demand absorbing” (Levy, 2011, p.389). They have “lack of academic status” (Levy, 2011, p. 389).

References

Hensley, B., Galilee-Belfer, M., & Lee, J. J. (2013). What is the greater good? The discourse on

public and private roles of higher education in the new economy. Journal of Higher

Education Policy and Management, 35(5), 553-567.

Levy, D. C. (2011). Public policy for private higher education: A global analysis.Journal of

Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 13(4), 383-396.

Teixeira, P., Rocha, V., Biscaia, R., & Cardoso, M. F. (2013). Competition and diversification in

public and private higher education. Applied Economics,45(35), 4949-4958.