European higher education policy

Dakowska, Dorota; Serrano-Velarde, Kathia

doi:10.4337/9781784719364.00022

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“…Following this, research has addressed the contingency of neoliberal discourses and lock‐ins within EU transport governance against a more socioecological understanding of sustainable mobility (Dyrhauge, 2014; Gössling & Cohen, 2014). Ideational research perspectives on EU higher education policies (Corbett, 2005; Dakowska & Velarde, 2018; Ravinet, 2018) tackle the notion of higher education increasingly as a provider of human capital and the precondition of economic competitiveness and social (class‐)mobility (Huisman et al, 2015; Jessop, 2008).…”

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Norm collisions in European Union sectoral governance during the COVID‐19 pandemic: How the European Commission reconfigures norms in crises

Felder,

Stockmann

2023

Contemporary European Politics

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This article argues that the COVID‐19 pandemic has incited the collision of norms in sectoral European Union (EU) governance and provided an open juncture for the European Commission to engage in norm reconfiguration. Herewith, the paper expands the conceptual scope of EU‐related norm research, which by focussing on the diffusion of norms within and beyond the EU has largely omitted dynamic perspectives on norms so far. We combine International Relations norm research with EU governance literature to scrutinise the normative underpinnings of the immediate crisis response within Commission sectoral strategies and working programs. Empirically, the paper focuses on the higher education and transport sectors, which have been particularly impacted by the COVID‐19 crisis and targeted by the EU crisis response. The interpretative‐qualitative analysis uncovers COVID‐19‐related collisions within the ideational constellation of EU governance and shows that the European Commission has engaged in different reconfiguration practices, potentially altering the norm constellation in the investigated sectoral governance areas.

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Norm collisions in European Union sectoral governance during the COVID‐19 pandemic: How the European Commission reconfigures norms in crises

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Stockmann

2023

Contemporary European Politics

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“…It has undoubtedly created an "agora" (Zgaga 2012: 30-32) or shared higher education policy space at a continental level (cf. Dakowska and Velarde 2018) where none previously existed. Yet, at the same time, this growing questioning of the process also stems from its (perceived or real) shortcomings.…”

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Taking Stock of the Bologna Process at 20: The Possibilities and Limits of Soft Law Governance

Deca

Harmsen

2020

European Higher Education Area: Challenges for a New Decade

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The Bologna Process stands as both an exemplar of regional cooperation in the higher education policy sector and as a comparatively successful instance of the use of so-called ‘soft law governance’ policy instruments. While the formal launch of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) in 2010 represents a significant milestone in the process, it nevertheless left many politically sensitive questions unanswered. Today, as this pan-European process now marks two decades of existence, many of the questions concerned with the direction and purpose of the process are being addressed with increasing urgency. Against this background, the present paper specifically focuses on recent debates surrounding the (non-)implementation of key commitments; on the functioning of the EHEA as a policy forum in relation to both its own membership and the wider international higher education policy landscape; and on the manner in which the EHEA may respond to increasingly serious challenges to the fundamental values that underpin the process. The authors draw on both the substantial body of scholarship that has emerged on the process and practitioner insights to examine its past achievements and current challenges, while having in mind the specificity of the EHEA as a policy process in a complex European context. Finally, the paper underlines the need for a more nuanced understanding of the EHEA governance model, based on an overall balance sheet that suggests the likely direction(s) of the process going forward.

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European Higher Education: Challenges and Achievement

Dallago

2020

Comparative Economic Studies in Europe

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European higher education policy

Cited by 6 publications

References 34 publications

Norm collisions in European Union sectoral governance during the COVID‐19 pandemic: How the European Commission reconfigures norms in crises

Norm collisions in European Union sectoral governance during the COVID‐19 pandemic: How the European Commission reconfigures norms in crises

Taking Stock of the Bologna Process at 20: The Possibilities and Limits of Soft Law Governance

European Higher Education: Challenges and Achievement

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