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Ilgtspējība un augstākā izglītība

2020

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the concept of subsidiarity as the strategic aim and constitutional principle of the state, as well as its interaction with higher education. Since higher education is an inseparable part of the state, reaching the aim of developing a sustainable state also requires the sustainability of higher education. The author discovers three main aspects of this interconnection between sustainability and higher education: institutional, content-related and result-related. It is also concluded that employees are among the main resources of the higher education institutions; academia is a prerequisite for achieving sustainability of the state. Consequently, the author expresses conclusions of difficulties which higher education system faces after the judgement of the Constitutional Court came into legal force, and several legal norms regulating labour (employment) relations at the universities lost their legal force.