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How to insure successful future of professional higher education institutions?

Contemporary changes in demographical structure and trends in European countries are obliging the higher education (HE) institutions to make changes. Not understanding new problems and frames could cause major problems to HE institutions. It is up to HE institutions to coop with challenges of modern society. Adopting new approaches, competences and skills, they could still continue to be what they are supposed to be: centres of excellence and generator of development of the efficient society. This paper aims to display methodology of making changes in Study Program Accounting & Finance at Department for Professional Studies, University of Split, taking in consideration all important, contemporary concepts, such as: Triple Helix, Bologna Process, Blooms Taxonomy, ENQA standards... Maine reasons for taking such action are: • Although we live in world that, thanks to great technological evolution, is connected in a way that pieces of information are shared in glance, we still don’t have sufficient rate of exchange of relevant information. • Unemployment rate in Croatia is grooving and as a responsible institution we want to make sure that our students don’t become a part of “black” statistics. • Teaching staff needs more opportunity for interaction true mutual activities with different groups of stakeholders. These remarks are even more valid for institutions belonging to the professional higher education area (PHE) like Department of Professional Studies. This paper will display results of research made on relevant sample of potential employers for the students that finish studies at this institution. Compatibility of skills, knowledge and competences acquired from study programs in offer and demands from labour market will be measured and compared. Since the process of improvement is continues one, this survey with presented results, will represent starting point for some corrective and preventive measures and further activities.

PHE, labour market, competences, improvement

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