National Higher Education Reforms in a European Context

The book focuses on the main transformations in European higher education and their affect on the national higher education systems of Norway and Poland. Europe and the two countries are the units of analysis, with different authors choosing different research foci and different disciplinary approaches.

This book addresses the following research questions: What are the main transformations in European higher education? How do these transformations affect the national higher education systems of Norway and Poland? How do European-level higher education policy processes affect national higher education policies in Norway and Poland, especially in the areas of funding and governance? Europe and the two countries are the units of analysis, with different authors choosing different research foci and different disciplinary approaches.

Autorentext

Marek Kwiek, Professor and Director of the Center for Policy Studies, Chairholder, UNESCO Chair in Institutional Research and Higher Education Policy, University of Poznan, Poland.
Peter Maassen, Professor in Higher Education Studies and Deputy Head of the Department of Educational Research, Faculty of Education, University of Oslo, Norway.

Inhalt

Contents: Marek Kwiek/Peter Maassen: Changes in Higher Education in European Peripheries and their Contexts: Poland, Norway, and Europe - Peter Maassen: Higher Education Diversity in Europe - Mari Elken: Competing or Complementary? Qualification Frameworks on the Agenda - Dominik Antonowicz: External Influences and Local Responses. Changes in Polish Higher Education 1990-2005 - Åse Gronitzka/Peter Maassen: University Reform and the Nordic Model - Marek Kwiek: The Public/Private Dynamics in Polish Higher Education. Demand-Absorbing Private Sector Growth and Its Implications - Marek Kwiek: Higher Education Reforms and Their Socio-Economic contexts: Shifting Funding Regimes and Competing Social Narratives - Rómulo Pinheiro: Knowledge and the «Europe of the Regions»: The Case of the High North - Martina Vukasovic: Europeanization of the Education Function of Universities. Preliminary Comparison of Norway and Poland - Marek Kwiek/Peter Maassen: Higher Education in Turbulent Times. Concluding Reflections.