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Introduction Private Higher Education in Post-Communist Europe: In Search of Legitimacy

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Private Higher Education in Post-Communist Europe

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Since 1990 we have witnessed unmatched growth of private higher education in most former communist countries.1 Nowhere else has the change been as concentrated in time and as inclusive of so many countries that share a historical legacy.2 Although private sector growth has been common worldwide, its development across Central and Eastern Europe is more striking in that it comes against the backdrop of at least four decades of communist public monopoly and historically limited higher education enrollment.

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  1. Snejana Slantcheva
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Central and Eastern Europe, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

    Snejana Slantcheva (Head of the Center for Research on Higher Education, Head of PROPHE’s Regional Center for Central and Eastern Europe) (Head of the Center for Research on Higher Education, Head of PROPHE’s Regional Center for Central and Eastern Europe)

  2. SUNY, USA

    Daniel C. Levy (Distinguished Professor) (Distinguished Professor)

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Slantcheva, S., Levy, D.C. (2007). Introduction Private Higher Education in Post-Communist Europe: In Search of Legitimacy. In: Slantcheva, S., Levy, D.C. (eds) Private Higher Education in Post-Communist Europe. Issues in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230604391_1

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