Higher education and the labour market – in search of consensus

Abstract

The complex and underdetermined character of relations between the education system (including the higher education) and the labour market necessitates the constant search of new modernizing or compensation solutions. The present article concentrates on the analysis of chosen propositions that might contribute to a change of the current situation by, e.g. introducing tuition fees, expanding the career counselling system aimed at higher school students and graduates, expanding autonomy of universities and colleges in respect of creation of majors and specializations, granting additional powers to the Polish Accreditation Committee (PolKA) or establishing the all-Polish labour market monitoring system. The considerations put forward in the article are based on the author’s own research.