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European Coordination of Higher Education

In: Subsidiarity and Economic Reform in Europe

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  • Sjef Ederveen

    (Ministry of Economic Affairs)

  • Laura Thissen

    (ECORYS Netherlands)

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.

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  • Sjef Ederveen & Laura Thissen, 2008. "European Coordination of Higher Education," Springer Books, in: George Gelauff & Isabel Grilo & Arjan Lejour (ed.), Subsidiarity and Economic Reform in Europe, chapter 7, pages 113-127, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-540-77264-4_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77264-4_7
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    1. Marcel Gérard, 2008. "Financing Bologna, the Internationally Mobile Students in European Higher Education," CESifo Working Paper Series 2391, CESifo.

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