European Coordination of Higher Education

Sjef Ederveen and Laura Thissen ()
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Laura Thissen: ECORYS Netherlands

Chapter 7 in Subsidiarity and Economic Reform in Europe, 2008, pp 113-127 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Although higher education has always been regarded as a national matter, this relation is weakening due to increased student mobility. Moreover the Bologna Declaration introduces the dual Bachelor-Mastersystem, which uniformizes the structure of higher educational programs. This chapter deals with the question of whether recent developments in higher education might justify lifting coordination of higher education to a higher level, i.e. from a national to a European level. It is related to two other contributions in this book. In Chapter 6 Gérard (2008) discusses the issues of mobile students and mobile researchers and the implications for the assignment of competencies in these cases, based on a theoretical model. Van der Ploeg and Veugelers (2008) take a broader view and discuss the challenges and possibilities for reform of higher education in Europe as well as the subsidiarity perspective in Chapter 5. We follow Van der Ploeg and Veugelers in taking a broad view, but we focus more on carefully disentangling all possible arguments for European coordination of higher education and providing empirical evidence of their importance. In addition, we pay due addition to the developments and determinants of student mobility in Europe.

Keywords: High Education; Host Country; International Student; Labour Mobility; Student Mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77264-4_7

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