1st Edition

Globalizing Higher Education and Strengthening the European Spirit How the Bologna Reform Has Changed Our World

Edited By Christiane Dienel Copyright 2024
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

The so-called Bologna process is one of the most disputed and influential long-term policy changes the European Union has ever succeeded to start. It has harmonized European higher education systems and, at the same time, deeply changed concepts about what the core of Europeanness is. This book discusses various aspects of this transformative and influential “soft policy” process. The Bologna... Read more

1. Soft policies for Europeanization in a rougher World

Christiane Dienel

2. 20 years of Bologna: a story of success, a story of failure. Policy convergence and (non-) implementation in the realm of the Bologna Process

Eva Maria Vögtle

3. Bologna and student mobility: a fuzzy relationship

Ulrich Teichler

4. The Bologna Process in a global setting: twenty years later

Pavel Zgaga

5. The Bologna process in European and post-Soviet higher education: institutional legacies and policy adoption

Jeroen Huisman

6. The Bologna Process and the harmonization of higher education systems in other world regions: a case from Southeast Asia

Philipp Pohlenz and Frank Niedermeier

7. Unthinking the European Higher Education Area: differentiated integration and Bologna's different configurations

Amélia Veiga

8. How the Bologna process has affected the German university system

George Turner

9. Universities of Applied Sciences in Germany: the winners of "Bologna"?

Micha Teuscher

10. Organizational changes towards a European academic field. A case study of frictions in the narratives of Europeanization at a German university from an institutional perspective

Klarissa Lueg

11. Returns to bachelor’s and master’s degree in tertiary education: the case of the Czech Republic after the Bologna Process

Petra Raudenská and Martina Mysíková

12. A remodelling of university roles? Some tendencies in Sweden

Martin Peterson

Biography

Christiane Dienel is a social scientist and director of Nexus Institute for Cooperation Management. After a PhD about French-German Relations, she held a chair for European Policy and Society and subsequently became deputy Minister for Social Affairs and Public Health in the state of Saxony-Anhalt. From 2011-2016, she was president of Hildesheim University of Applied Sciences.