European Higher Education and the Internal Market

Cristina Sin is Researcher at the Portuguese Agency for Assessment and Accreditation (A3ES) and at CIPES, Portugal.Orlanda Tavares is Researcher at A3ES and CIPES, Portugal.Sónia Cardoso is Researcher at A3ES and CIPES, Portugal.Maria João Rosa is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Management, Industrial Engineering and Tourism at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. She is also Senior Researcher at CIPES, Portugal.

“An aspiration for many scholars is to make their work relevant beyond their immediate community. This book is one which has the potential to do so. It tackles a question of general interest to European scholarship: what happens when institutions collide within the EU. … This book opens up possibilities for further work in this area … .” (Anne Corbett, European Journal of Higher Education, October 03, 2019)

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- PART 1.- Chapter 2. On Principles, Europe and Higher Education. Reflections on European higher education as an intersecting normative space; Pauline Ravinet.- Chapter 3. Neoliberalism in higher education policy; Peter Streckeisen.- Chapter 4. Jurifidication, judicialisation and judicial activism in higher education:v views from the CJEU; Fausto Comandè and Jan de Groof.- Chapter 5. Differentiated integration in the field of higher education: between theory and practices of (non)integration; Amélia Veiga and Antonio Magalhães.- Chapter 6. The EC Communications, the knowledge society and their influence over higher education; Alberto Amaral and Andrée Sursock.- Chapter 7. The expansion of markets and the rise of skills: two roads leading to the same place. Higher education in the current agendas of international organisations; Alma Maldonado.- PART II. Chapter 8. The Bologna Process and the unachieved potential for the creation of a common higher education market; Cristina Sin and Orlanda Tavares.- Chapter 9. Higher education as a service: Denying the obvious; Anne van Wageningen.- Chapter 10. Overburdening higher education? The Europeanisation of the professional complex; Eva Hartmann.- Chapter 11. The recognition of professional qualifications: the part played by the European University Association in the alignment of EU legislation with the Bologna Process; Howard Davies.- Chapter 12. European policy implementation: Challenges for higher education quality assurance; Sónia Cardoso and Maria João Rosa.- Chapter 13. Conclusion; Orlanda Tavares and Cristina Sin