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• The Rethinking the public in Higher Education: Communitarian Engagement vs. Service-Based dependency

  79-108

  Gyöngyvér Pataki

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  74

  There has been structural change in higher education due to the impact of institutions built or maintained in private public partnership. The aim of the paper is to give a deep insight into how these institutions could accomodate or shape the public higher education sector’s discouses, spaces, procedures. The research used mixed method to approach this complex question from a multidisciplinary perspective (sociology, education). Within this framework two residential halls were chosen and 17 interviews were carreid out with all relevant figure of the management. Due to the analytical tools of Maxqda 12 the qualitative results will be presented giving an insight into the differing discourses and practices of the public vs. private-public management. Based on the analysis of the managerial interviews it is safe to state that the public management struggles to balance a communitarian, democratic discourse and objectives with the requirements of efficiency and accountability. The presence of private-public management unintendedly shapes its public counterpart. The institutional analysis revealed that due to the swiftly changing institutional and policy environment residential halls are forced to be efficient leading to difficulties in managerial legitimacy and questions concepts such as community, conformity, commitment and action. Under the circumstances of increasingly growing institutional service-based dependency and control, academic consumers, institutions and students alike, paradoxically avoid integrating into macro groups. As a consequence, the institution encourage and educate student into a particular type of citizenship based on communication and consumerism rather than consensus.

• Equal opportunities and integration in the career choice: The relation between school competences and job market integration

  173-190

  Irén Sipeki

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  50

  The competences manifested in the career choice decisions refer to the success of integration
  and equal opportunities. They are able to forecast these social processes in a predictive way. The
  career choice competences connect the individual features and the social scenes, so by analysing
  them already the secondary school age group’s labour market success can be predicted.
  By studying and analysing of the competence fields with the method of revealing the sociological, psychological and pedagogical correlations it is possible to determine the labour market competences of students facing career choice, which determines the success of their social
  integration into the society at a personal level. Career choice plays a connecting part between education at schools and the labour market; therefore it has an important part concerning equal
  opportunities and integration, beyond the effect of qualification. In my study I am describing this
  process via displaying the affected competence fields.