Real-Time Systems: Reflections on higher education in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia

Real-time systems (An ICT definition)\ud In real-time multiprocessing there is the extra requirement that the system complete its response to any input within a certain critical time. This poses additional problems, particularly in situations where the system is heavily loaded and is subject to many\ud simultaneous demands. Real-time systems are always dedicated. Most systems are not real-time

Institutional management nin higher education

This presentation outlines a number of key concepts and analyses that may helpus understand the challenges facing institutional management in higher education today. It assesses (a) the nature of the unprecedented change in theenvironment in which higher education is situated(b) the special characteristics of universities as organisations(c) the different organisational traditions different systems developed from(d) a number of models of university decision-makingand (e) the contemporary increase in thepower and authirity of institutional management