공공성 기반 고등교육 진단 및 미래 방향성 제안 : 전문가 그룹 면담(FGI) 분석을 중심으로

Abstract

The province of university has been changed according to the time, place, and culture of society. The practical value and public education aspects of characteristics of university have been focused in the modern industrial society for publics due to the increase of a large quantity of production and consumption and then the province of university has been changed from the pursuit of truth for academics to the role of community service in society. This study is to investigate the current issues and the future direction of higher education based on the public character. Using the focus group interview research method(FGI), 24 experts of education were interviewed via email and telephone regarding to several issues such as the outcome, limitation, policies, characterization, direction for the innovation of higher education in Korea. The findings are as follows. First, while the quantity of higher education has been expanded greatly, the quality of higher education has been decreased. Second, the critical problems of higher education in Korea are its hierarchy as well as standardization. Third, the financial support by the government for the higher education is limited comparing the quantity of university so consequently it causes a variety of problems in higher education such as the low quality of education, weakness of capability of research, losing the prestige of higher education, etc. Thus, the experts of FGI suggested the reform and innovation of higher education by weeding out the unqualified universities, fostering the region-based shared education system, reforming the structure of higher education based on characterization, preparing for the policy for financial support, and public management for community colleges. Most of all, the consensus goals and agreement for the innovation of higher education are needed for publics in society.