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Some Recent Trends in Croatian Higher Education

After ten critical years of first its war for independence and then post-war recovery, at the beginning of this century Croatia embarked on a new phase in its integration into the European political and economic framework. Politically this process has been marked by the 2003 start of the negotiation procedure for its accession to the European Union, which will likely be finished in 2013, when Croatia is expected to become its 28th member state. Two years before, in 2001, the Minister of Science and Higher Education had signed the Bologna declaration in Prague, thus confirming a political decision by which Croatia started the process of incorporating its higher education into the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). The aim of the present short account is to concentrate on a few aspects and trends experienced within this process over the past ten years. They are not only related to the specific circumstances of one South-Eastern European country in the phase of transition from the self-managerial socialist to the capitalist economic and societal system, but also reflect the general trends of market liberalization in the widest meaning of the term, accompanied by the global economic recession in the recent half-decade.