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Managerial Education of Governing Structures of University Constituent Units and Quality Assurance in Higher Education

Ensuring quality in higher education is one of key aspects of success of individual universities and their constituent units, whereby the work on achieving quality necessarily includes the introduction and implementation of certain changes. Due to their unique characteristics, in comparison to other organizations universities require a different approach in institutional management, governance and administration. The aim of this study was to determine the role and importance of managerial education of governing structures of the university and its constituent units in the field of quality assurance in higher education. This study was constituted as a cross-sectional study and was carried out at 25% of Croatian public universities, from June to September 2015 by means of a specially designed questionnaire, and through the analysis of the results of external evaluation in the field of governance and quality assurance in higher education for every single constituent unit of the mentioned universities. The study showed that there is a connection between the formal education in the field of organization and governance of the management board members of Croatian universities and their success in governance and establishing of an adequate system of quality assurance in higher education at the universities they are employed at, this interrelation being very complex ant influenced by a wide range of other factors which are yet to be determined. Thus, further consideration of the issue which is of utmost importance in Croatia is necessary, taking into consideration that contemporary Croatian universities have to not only develop a sufficient number of good and precisely elaborated ideas for changes, but also ensure that these are put into practice in a consistent and sustainable manner, because only by using this approach will these universities become distinctive as serious candidates in the global field of science and higher education.

managerial education ; organization and governance ; university ; quality in higher education ; Croatia

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