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

Economic crisis starts with collapse of Lehman Brothers and its effects spread for all over the world. Then, it begans a complex changes on the economy and, at this time, the economic crisis causes strong reductions of the State Budget for Education and then Higher Educations Institution (HEI) must redefine its role and adapt their curricula to be able to compete on an equal footing in the international market. For all these reasons, the satisfaction among student population differ in percepcions of quality of their HEI. In this line, the objective of the research is to conduct a comparative analysis of the student perceptions of the HEI among Portugal and Croatian and assessment their perceptions about the quality of their HEI. The methodology of the research will be based on the theoretical analysis which collect and review accessible information about higher degree study programmes in Portugal and Croatia. 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 Portugal 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 appears 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.

Economic Crisis ; Challenges ; Students ; Portugal ; Croatia ; KVALIMETAR measuring instrument

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