Administration and Management in Institutions of Higher Education in the Kingdom SHS (Based on the Example of Universities in Belgrade and Zagreb)

Abstract

The method of quantitative and qualitative analysis of primary documents (laws and by-laws) made it possible to study the administration and nature of the management of institutions of higher education under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education. This is the University of Belgrade (BU), as well as the University (ZU) and the high schools in Zagreb. The findings of the survey confirmed that, in the context of the pluralism of legal systems that remained in the Kingdom SHS (KSHS), these two centers of higher education, each of which had special autonomous rights, were different administrative systems. BU as a whole was formed and developed in the period before WWI. At the same time, in the KSHS more attention was paid to the creation and development of individual faculties. So, BU took the form of an autonomous, integrated and self-sufficient administrative system, which independently chose its own authorities and carried out all the tasks before it. ZU consisting of three faculties had been developing for half a century in Austria-Hungary. In accordance with the territorial and political autonomy of the region, Croatia and Slavonia ZU embodied the model of territorial-functional administrative system. It was governed by the political power – the land government / regional administration, as well as the ban / regional governor. Their interrelated and interdependent authorities covered most of the cases and tasks that accompanied the work of the memory and higher schools. Within the framework of the KSHS, in just over six years, ZU, which grew out as a result of the opening of three new faculties and three higher schools, became an autonomous system of management.