TY - JOUR N2 - The present paper discusses the new Polish law on higher education in the context of the contrasted global and academic paradigms of university funding, governance, and organization. Its point of departure is the advent of international comparative data in higher education, the measurability of individuals, academic units and institutions in terms of research output, and the emergence of a new social contract between the state and universities. The key concepts used to evaluate the new law are competition in science, academic income structure and academic knowledge production structure, internationalists and locals in science, and vertical differentiation in national higher education systems. The new law is assessed in the context of the original reform proposal suggested by the national team of experts led by the present author and its long-term strategic choices are discussed in more detail, including a changing system of institutional evaluation, a revised system of academic degrees, and new excellence-focused national funding schemes. L1 - http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/110457/PDF/N118-02-Kwiek.pdf L2 - http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/110457 PY - 2018 IS - No 1 EP - 86 KW - law on higher education KW - international data KW - international reforms KW - measuring scientific output KW - competition in science KW - income structure KW - academic production structure KW - vertical differentiation A1 - Kwiek, Marek PB - Biuro Upowszechniania i Promocji Nauki PAN DA - 2018.03.31 T1 - The Law 2.0 vs. the measurability and comparability of academic output SP - 65 UR - http://czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/110457 T2 - Nauka ER -