A gazdasági tanácsokkal kapcsolatos működési tapasztalatok az egyetemeken

Abstract

The higher education reform launched in 2002 intended to introduce university governance in Hungarian universities, but because of the protest of the academic sector, and of constitutional discrepancies the initiative failed. The only result was setting up economic councils as consultative bodies in the management of the universities, with very narrow scope of power. On the basis of interviews conducted with 10 university leaders representing 8 leading Hungarian universities we can state that the economic councils do not function well and they cannot be turned into governing bodies.