Globalisation Challenge for European Higher Education

Pavel Zgaga is Professor of Philosophy of Education and Education Policy at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia where he also directs the Centre for Education Policy Studies (CEPS) since 2001.Ulrich Teichler is Emeritus Professor at the University of Kassel (Germany), where he served as director of the International Centre for Higher Education Research (INCHER-Kassel) for 16 years.John Brennan is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Research at the UK Open University where he directed the Centre for Higher Education Research and Information (CHERI) for nearly 20 years. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Bath and the London School of Economics.

• Contents: Pavel Zgaga/Ulrich Teichler/John Brennan: Challenges for European Higher Education: «Global» and «National», «Europe» and «sub-Europes» – Janja Komljenovič/Klemen Miklavič: Imagining Higher Education in the European Knowledge Economy: Discourse and Ideas in Communications of the EU – Ulrich Teichler: The Event of International Mobility in the Course of Study - The European Policy Objective – Ellen Hazelkorn/Martin Ryan: The Impact of University Rankings on Higher Education Policy in Europe: A Challenge to Perceived Wisdom and a Stimulus for Change – Elsa Hackl: Diversification in Austrian Higher Education: A Result of European or National Policies? – Manja Klemenčič: The Effects of Europeanisation on Institutional Diversification in the Western Balkans – Voldemar Tomusk: The Monolithic Un-intentionality of Higher Education Policies: On the Continuing Importance of Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin and the Minor Classics Less Known – Susan L. Robertson: «Hullabaloo in the Groves of Academe»: The Politics of «Instituting» a Market in English Higher Education – John Brennan: Higher Education Differentiation and the Myth of Meritocracy: The Case of the UK – Leon Cremonini: The Recognition of Prior Learning and Dutch Higher Education - At cross-purposes? – Marek Kwiek: From System Expansion to System Contraction. Access to Higher Education in Poland – Martina Vukasović/Mari Elken: Higher Education Policy Dynamics in a Multi-level Governance Context: A Comparative Study of Four Post-communist Countries – Jana Baćević: What Kind of University for What Kind of Society? Nation-States, Post-National Constellations, and Higher Education in the Post-Yugoslav Space – Tatjana Sekulić: The Bosnian Puzzle of Higher Education in the Perspective of the Bologna Process – Danijela Dolenec/Karin Doolan: Reclaiming the Role of Higher Education in Croatia: Dominant and Oppositional Framings – Pavel Zgaga: Reconsidering Higher Education Reforms in the Western Balkans: «Policy Colonies» or «Policy Autarchies»?