Social responsibility of autonomous higher education institutions in Poland: the case of education in geodesy and cartography

Jerzy Gaździcki
Council for Spatial Information Infrastructure
Polish Association for Spatial Information
Poland

Abstract

The education system in the area of geodesy and cartography functioning in Poland in its present state is dominated by the education market. involving, on one hand, the higher education institutions taking advantage of their autonomy and offering educational services, and on the other, the candidates interested in these offers. The resulting quality of education is criticised: attention is drawn to difficulties related to a nearly fivefold increase both in the number of higher education institutions and the number of students during the past twenty years with only limited growth of ageing academic personnel. Trends in the education market are reflected in the labour market with a delay of a few years resulting from the duration of studies. Significant changes in the demand for graduates both with respect to their number and qualifications provide an additional difficulty.
This education system is presented in the paper as a UML use case diagram at a high level of abstraction. The needs of the actors shown in the diagram are identified to draw three conclusions concerning:
• information support to the education market,
• monitoring of the labour market,
• cooperation of autonomous higher education institutions within the framework of the education system in the area of geodesy and cartography.

Keywords:

Law on Higher Education, National Qualification Framework; geodesy and cartography; geospatial information

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