European Higher Education at the Crossroads

<p>Volume 1: Bologna Process Principles, Teaching and Learning, Quality Assurance, Mobility. - Preface.- 1. Introduction: Going Beyond Bologna: Issues and Themes; Peter Scott.- SECTION 1: European Higher Education Area Principles.- 2. Introduction: Reconsidering the EHEA Principles: Is there a ‘Bologna Philosophy’?; Pavel Zgaga.- 3. Principles, Problems, Politics….What Does the Historical Record of EU Cooperation in Higher Education Tell the EHEA Generation?; Anne Corbett.- 4. Institutional Autonomy and the Attractiveness of the European Higher Education Area – Facts or Tokenistic Discourse?; Terhi Nokkala.- 5. Tensions in the Policy Objectives of the European Higher Education Area? Public Good and Public Responsibility versus Service Liberalisation Equality versus Institutional Diversity; Elsa Hackl.- 6. Implications of the Bologna Process for Equity in Higher Education; Marina Elias Andreu and John Brennan.- 7. Academic Values against the Commodification of Higher Education. An Episode in Constructing the Discursive Meaning of Higher Education in the Bologna Process; Klemen Miklavič.- SECTION 2: Teaching and Learning.- 8. Introduction: Education as Transformation – Transforming European Higher Education; Hanne Smidt.- 9. Time for Student-Centred Learning?; Angele Attard and Koen Geven.- 10. Widening Access to Higher Education – What Can EUROSTUDENT Say about the New Challenges Emerging for Teaching and Learning?; Dominic Orr.- 11. The Embedding of the European Higher Education Reform at the Institutional Level:  Development of Outcome-based and Flexible Curricula?; Åsa Lindberg-Sand.- 12. Mobility, ECTS and Grades. Problems with the Comparability of Grades; Michael Huber.-13. On the Tracks of Students and Graduates: Methods and Uses of Tracking Procedures in the European Higher Education Area; Kai Muehleck.-SECTION 3: Quality Assurance.- 14. Introduction: Quality Assurance and the European Transformational Agenda; Andrée Sursock.- 15. External Quality Assurance between European Consensus and National Agendas; Achim Hopbach.- 16. Many Voices, One Song: The Role of Discipline-based Europe-wide Evaluation Tools in Emphasising Enhancement and Promoting the Modernisation Agenda of the EHEA; Jeremy Cox.- 17. A Snapshot on the Internal Quality Assurance in EHEA; Tia Loukkola.- 18. Internalizing Quality Assurance in Higher Education: Challenges of Transition in Enhancing the Institutional Responsibility for Quality; Mihai Paunescu, Bogdan Florian, Gabriel-Marian Hâncean.- 19. European “Transparency Instruments”: Driving the Modernisation of European Higher Education; Ellen Hazelkorn.- 20. Consequences of the Student participation in Quality Assurance; Fernando Miguel Galán Palomares.- SECTION 4: Mobility.- 21. Introduction: Mobility Key to the EHEA and ERA;Peter van der Hijden.- 22. Student Mobility in Europe. Recent Trends and Implications of Data Collection; Irina Ferencz and Bernd Waechter.- 23. The Offspring of a Mobile Generation: Students with an Immigrant Background in Higher Education;  Chripa Schneller.- 24. Student Mobility between Europe and the Rest of the World: Trends, Issues and Challenges; Hans de Wit.- 25. Student Mobility in the EU - Recent Case Law, Reflections and Recommendations; Sacha Garben.- 26. The PhD in Europe: Developing a System of Doctoral Training that Will Increase the Internationalisation of Universities; Conor O'Carroll, Lewis Purser, Sinead Lucey, Nina McGuinness.- 27. Student Mobility in Europe: The Informational Value of Official Statistics and Graduate Surveys; Ulrich Teichler.- 28. Internationalisation and Competitiveness of Universities through Different Types of Researchers' Mobility – Facing the Future; Snezana Krstic.- Volume 2: Governance, Financing, Mission Diversification and Futures of Higher Education.- SECTION 5:  Higher Education Governance in the European Higher Education Area.- 29. Introduction: Governance within the EHEA: Dynamic Trends, Common Challenges, and National Particularities; Robin Middlehurst and Pedro Teixeira.- 30. A Cross-national Comparison of Higher Education Markets in Western Europe; Harry de Boer.- 31. Tools and Implementation for a New Governance of Universities. Understanding Variability between and within Countries; Catherine Paradeise.- 32. University Governance in Changing European Systems of Higher Education; Roberto Moscati.- 33. The Decline of an Academic Oligarchy. The Bologna Process and ‘Humboldt's last warriors’; Hans Pechar.- 34. The Changing Conceptions of Student Participation in Higher Education Governance in the EHEA; Manja Klemenčič.- 35. Higher Education Reforms in Europe: a Comparative Perspective of New Legal Frameworks in Europe; Alberto Amaral, Orlanda Tavares, Cristina Santos.- SECTION 6: Funding of Higher Education.- 36. Introduction: A Policy Gap: Funding in the European Higher Education Area; Liviu Matei.- 37. Accountability and the Public Funding of Higher Education; Kata Orosz.- 38. European Universities Diversifying Income Streams; Enora Bennetot Pruvot and Thomas Estermann.- 39. Who Is to Pay for Mobile Students? Marcel Gérard.- 40. Entrepreneurialism and Financing for Improved Academic Enterprise  in Higher Education: Coaching for Leadership and Innovation Reflecting True Demand; James Powell.- 41. Relating Performance and Funding. The Romanian Case; Lazăr Vlăsceanu, Adrian Miroiu.- SECTION 7: Diversification of Higher Education Institutions Missions as a Response to Global Competition.- 42. Introduction: Refocusing the Debate on Diversity in Higher Education ; Sybille Reichert.- 43. “Everyone Wants to Be Like Harvard” – Or Do They? Cherishing all Missions Equally; Ellen Hazelkorn.- 44. Institutional Diversification and Homogeneity in Romanian Higher Education: The Larger Picture; Liviu Andreescu, Radu Gheorghiu, Viorel Proteasa, Andrian Curaj.- 45. U-MAP, University Activity Profiles in Practice; Frans Kaiser, Marike Faber, Ben Jongbloed.- 46. How to Measure Institutional Profiles in the Norwegian Higher Education Landscape. The Norwegian “Institutional Profile Project”; Ole-Jacob Skodvin.- 47. Diversity of Higher Education in Europe and the Findings of a Comparative Study of the Academic Profession; Ulrich Teichler.- SECTION 8: Higher Education Futures and Foresight.- 48. Introduction: Transmodern Journeys: Future Studies and Higher Education; Ziauddin Sardar.- 49. Multiple Futures for Higher Education in a Multi-level Structure; Attila Havas.- 50. Systemic Foresight for Romanian Higher Education; Liviu Andreescu, Radu Gheorghiu, Marian Zulean, Adrian Curaj.- 51. Re-imagining The Role and Function of Higher Education for Alternative Futures through Embracing Global Knowledge Futures; Jennifer M. Gidley.- 52. The Politics &amp; Consequences of Eurocentrism in University Disciplines; Vinay Lal.- 53. Is Bologna Sustainable in the Future? Future Testing the Bologna Principles; Eddie Blass.- Index. </p>