European Higher Education and the Internal Market Tensions Between European Policy and National Sovereignty

This book analyses European higher education policies and their three main drivers: the European Commission, the European Court of Justice and the building of the European Higher Education Area through the Bologna Process. Central to the volume is the issue of European institutions’ intervention in higher education: building a common area for higher education in a domain protected by subsidiarity is no easy task, and one that must consider the supra-national, national and institutional levels that all play a role in policy implementation. In this volume, the editors and contributors navigate within the tensions between the establishment of an internal market on the one hand and national sovereignty on the other. This volume will surely be of interest and value to those studying and working in the area of higher education policy and understanding relationships between European institutions and member states.

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