Governance and Funding of Higher Education – International Trends and Best Practices

AbstractThe aim of our research was to overview and analyse the best practices of higher education funding (mostly in the EU, with a highlight to Central and Eastern Europe) and to make proposals for Hungary in designing its own system of funding focusing on quality, sustainability and the possible inclusion of private (entrepreneurial) contribution. During the research we unfolded the international trends and the Hungarian practice of governance and funding of higher education with concrete examples from Germany (Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg), Great Britain (University of Manchester), France (Lille Institute of Political Studies), and from Central and Eastern Europe with special focus on Poland (Jagiellonian University in Krakow) and Slovenia (University of Ljubljana). This paper provides a brief summary of the general trends in financing higher education, andwe highlight a few funding solutions that could be used by the CEE countries as well.