The OECD Education Policy Perspective series presents analysis for policy makers, practitioners and researchers on a wide range of policy issues covered at OECD. They are prepared as part of the OECD's Resourcing Higher Education Project. This wider project aims to provide a shared knowledge base for OECD member and partner countries on policy for higher education resourcing, drawing on system-specific and comparative policy analysis
This policy brief is about institutional missions and profiles in higher education in Lithuania. It was developed at the request of the Lithuanian authorities as part of their efforts to promote the development of a more diversified and efficient institutional landscape in the national higher education system. The brief initially provides a concise overview of the operating environment for Higher Education Insitutions in Lithuania and the existing institutional landscape. It then examines the approaches adopted to institutional differentiation and missions in higher education in other OECD higher education systems, before considering the rationale for reform in Lithuania and the policy options open to Lithuania to effect reform of its higher education landscape.
