The Globalisation Challenge for European Higher Education: Convergence and Diversity, Centres and Peripheries (Higher Education Research and Policy)

The last decade has marked the European higher education with a particular dynamics. Today, after a decade of a «concerted» policy, national systems look much more convergent but new questions and dilemmas are emerging: about its nature and quality, about real impact of recent reforms in different countries as well as about its future. The book examines the impact of Europe-wide and global developments on national higher education systems. The authors try in particular to upfront issues of convergence and diversity, of equity and of the relationship of centres and peripheries in higher education. The book is an outcome of research collaboration between six institutes which developed a EuroHESC research proposal on the consequences of expanded and differentiated higher education systems.

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 Professor at the International Centre for Higher Education Research (INCHER) at the University of Kassel, where he served as director for 16 years.
John Brennan is 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.