“…This does not mean, however, that the relationships between higher education and the world of work had been a priority theme in respective research and in discussions among politicians and practitioners or in the public discourse in general. In an article on the state of research on HE published in EJE in 2005, ‘Research into Higher Education Abstracts' was presented as a typical indication of thematic priorities in the HE discourse: national systems and international comparison, institutional management, curriculum, research, students, staff, and finance and physical resources (Teichler, ), but not the relationships between HE and the world of work. Obviously, the general discourse mainly addressed the institutional fabric, the steering and management mechanisms (including quality assurance), the processes (teaching and learning, research, etc,) and those involved (students, academics and administrators).…”