Economic and Educational Crisis: Challenges for Students in Portugal and Croatia

Jelena Legčević (), Rute Abreu () and Fátima David
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Jelena Legčević: Faculty of Law University of J.J. Strossmayer in Osijek
Rute Abreu: Guarda Polytechnic Institute

A chapter in Entrepreneurship, Business and Economics - Vol. 1, 2016, pp 261-274 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The objective of the research is to conduct a comparative analysis of the student perceptions of the Croatian and Portuguese HEI and assessment their perceptions about the quality of their HEI. The methodology of the research will be based on the theoretical analysis which collects and review accessible information about higher education degree study programmes in Croatia and Portugal. Furthermore, the empirical analysis of the research, it will be validated with the reliable KVALIMETAR measuring survey instrument used among Croatian students (January–March 2014; n = 732) and Portuguese students (September–October 2014; n = 366). The results show that Croatian and Portuguese HEI have to accept several challenges made by students to improve the quality of the teaching and learning process. Also, several remarks appear from both surveys with views and thoughts made by the students in order understand their motivation. Indeed, the profile of the new curricula will get more knowledge and competences to face the exposition of students to economic crisis. The aforementioned facts should be taken into account in the process of planning the future educational programs in order to improve the quality of education in Croatia and in Portugal to meet the new demands of the modern business environment.

Keywords: Economic crisis; Educational challenges; Students; Portugal; Croatia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-27570-3_21

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