CÍMLAP
Third mission of higher education in a cross-border region
TABLE OF CONTENTS, FOREWORD
Table of contents
Foreword: What Do We Mean by the "Third Mission of Higher Education"?
Educational policy discourse
Reisz, Robert D.: Academic Rankings and Quality in Higher Education
Szolár, Éva: The Bologna-inspired Higher Education Reforms and Debates in Hungary
Flóra, Gábor - Szilágyi, Györgyi: Hungarian Minority Educational Policies and Opportunities in Bihor County
Győrbíró, András - Ceglédi, Tímea: Insight into the Hungarian and Romanian Talent Care System in Higher Education - a Legal Approach
Teperics, Károly - Czimre, Klára: Study-driven Migration in the Modern World Economy
Campus Realities
Săveanu, Sorana - Ştefănescu, Florica: Academics Perception about University Curricula in Bologna System. Case Study at the University of Oradea, Romania
Pusztai, Gabriella - Fónai, Mihály: Asymmetric Students' Relations and Deprofessionalization. The Case of Teacher Training
Bălţătescu, Sergiu - Kovács, Klára: Sport Participation and Subjective Well-being among University Students in the Hungarian-Romanian-Ukrainian Cross-border Area
Oşvat, Claudia: Volunteering and employability. A comparative study among students from the University of Oradea
Bocsi, Veronika - Fényes, Hajnalka: Values and the Motivations of Higher Education Students' Volunteering in a Borderland Central Eastern European Region
Hatos, Adrian: Enrollment in Higher Education: College Choice in the Hungarian-Romanian Cross-Border Region
List of Authors
Foreword
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The HERD project is an organic continuation of our earlier research
projects into regional higher education, coordinated by the University
of Debrecen's Center for Higher Education Research and Development
(CHERD-Hungary), has been in the forefront of research dealing with the
colleges and universities of the Partium region for a decade. We contacted
the colleges and universities of Debrecen, Oradea, Nyíregyháza, Satu Mare
and Berehove several times. The findings of these research projects
are published in a series of books titled Régió és Oktatás [Region and
Education] (Pusztai ed. 2005, Juhász ed. 2006, Pusztai ed. 2008a, 2008b,
Juhász ed. 2010, Pusztai ed. 2010, Kozma - Ceglédi eds. 2010, Kozma -
Pataki eds. 2011). Several years of joint work established the cross-border
cooperation that is now going on with the participation of the professionals
of the University of Debrecen, the University of Oradea and Partium
Christian University. The joint work serves as a foundation for the
HERD project. Our present volume turns towards an analysis of the higher
education of the national communities by providing a comparative analysis
of Hungarian and Romanian universities. This volume is intended to be the
first in a new line, titled Educational Research in Central and Eastern
Europe, launched by our research center, CHERD-Hungary.
HERD research uses a wide range of methodological procedures. On the one
hand researchers using qualitative methods addressed smaller target groups
in order to reveal the opinions and attitudes of people involved in higher
education. On the other hand researchers selecting a quantitative approach,
used a large-scale, coordinated survey through an inventory circulated
simultaneously among the students of the University of Debrecen (in
Debrecen, Hungary), Kölcsey Ferenc Teacher Training Institute of Debrecen
Reformed Theological University (in Debrecen, Hungary), 3 faculties of
College of Nyíregyháza (in Nyíregyháza, Hungary), Ferenc Rákóczi II.
Transcarpathian Hungarian Teacher Training College (in Berehove, Ukraine),
Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences with the Hungarian Language of
Education of Uzhgorod National University (in Uzhgorod, Ukraine), Partium
Christian University (in Oradea, Romania), University of Oradea (in Oradea,
Romania), Emanuel University (in Oradea, Romania) and the Branch of
Babeş-Bolyai University in Satu Mare (in Satu Mare, Romania). During the
survey, conducted in the spring of 2012, a total of 2,728 students completed
the inventory, as we wished to reach the highest possible number of
participants in higher education.