Jolanta Urbanovic

• Doctor of Social Science
• Mykolas Romeris University

This article argues that policy development and evaluations should not only incorporate whether and to what extent the policies achieve the intended goals, but should also take the unintended consequences of the policies into account. Based on the classic work of the sociologist Robert Merton, this article addresses the side-effects of attempts tha...

In recent decades, the neoliberal education policy has been implemented in many countries, by reducing the state’s role in education management. Lithuania is one of the countries which after the restoration of Independence in 1991 and collapse of the Soviet Union has decentralized its education management system by giving more autonomy to schools a...

Satisfaction with compensation for work in modern society, especially in welfare states, plays a very important role. It not only ensures the efficient use of available production facilities and natural resources, but also determines the size of the state budget, the quality of life in the country, an attitude towards emigration and the general sta...

This chapter guides the reader to an understanding of social responsibility in educational settings, namely on school/university social responsibility (USR). The phenomenon of social responsibility in these settings is nuanced when encountering stakeholders, either external or internal. This chapter conceptualizes school/USR and describes related s...

Civil service consists of civil servants and their activity when implementing the assigned functions and decisions made by politicians. In other words, it is a system of civil servants who perform the assigned functions of public administration. The corpus of civil servants consists of people who work in central and local public administration inst...

Education reformers of the mid-1970s introduced the idea that schools would work better if the number of formal restrictions in the management process was reduced. Decentralisation and deregulation of management would decrease the “workload” of the public sector as it eliminated unnecessary layers at the middle management level. The reduction of st...

SUMMARY The education system is constantly affected by a variety of national factors, international trends, ideologies, values dominant in society, social and economic context, and the like. The rapidly changing environment determines the need to respond and change the principles of governance of the education system. This resulted in a wave of de...

Although there seems to be a wide held assumption that transnational higher education programs have to be taught in English to be legitimate “international” programs, there are a few examples globally of international branch campuses that teach in languages other than English. Using seven institutional case studies from around the world, the resear...

The spread of the neo-liberal ideology internationally has encouraged increased marketisation of higher education systems right around the world. With marketisation promoting competition, efficiency and revenue generation, many countries have begun to recruit more foreign students. Higher education has moved towards becoming a profitable commodity...

The definition of a good school depends not only on who defines it, but also on the purpose, time and circumstances under which it is defined. In a society the definition of a good school usually includes the concepts of an effective, good-quality and best-scoring school. When talking about the concept of an effective school, the aspects of educati...

In the literature, the school leader (head of school) is considered a key figure in strengthening school autonomy and stimulating the further development of the school organization. To improve the functioning of school leaders a centralized assessment of all candidates who want to become school leaders was introduced in Lithuania in 2011. The findi...

Assumptions have developed around the benefits of internationalisation; for example, that it promotes cultural integration and harmony, improves the quality of education and research, and improves country and institutional reputations internationally. A range of coercive, normative and mimetic influences have pushed most small states with mass or u...

Universities experience a myriad of transformations due to the challenging environment. The confrontation of institutional and individual interests in the management of research performance is one of them. The imperative of responsibility is under the spotlight of discussion in terms of what our actions bring in improving the management of research...

The paper presents an overview and an analysis of literature related to specificity of university marketing, possibilities for market segmentation and main prerequisites for effective marketing strategy formulation. It is concluded that traditional marketing tools and principles are not immediately applicable to respond to the needs of higher educa...

The system of education management in Lithuania is being gradually decentralised and de-concentrated on the basis of the subsidiarity principle, as decentralisation is seen as one of the key strategies for reforming and reshaping educational institutions. The present paper tackles the questions about how the interaction of education subjects change...

Researches of Maturity exams are usually restricted to the tasks of content analysis, thus maturity examinations are attached to the pedagogical field of study. However, the final examina-tion is a complex phenomenon, being the task of content and its implementation process. There-fore, to fully assess the maturity exams, the administration cannot...

The article analyzes the development of the Lithuanian civil service and the influence of some of the prevailing models of public management on the changes that occurred in the service. It also reviews the attitude of society and experts towards the bureaucracy and points out that in Lithuania, society is becoming more and more skeptical about poli...