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European Integration and the Governance of Higher Education and ResearchThe Mission Impossible of the European University: Institutional Confusion and Institutional Diversity

European Integration and the Governance of Higher Education and Research: The Mission Impossible... [The outline for this book stresses the importance of the institutional dynamics of the European university and points to its current state of institutional confusion and search for identity. In fact, attempts to delineate some common elements of the multiple transformations of the university point to the unfolding of a most interesting paradox (Krücken et al. 2007). The European university is undeniably a success story. Research and teaching have expanded enormously; the fields of research and scholarship have multiplied and provide potential links to all other sub-systems in modern society (Frank and Meyer 2007). While there are signs of stagnation there are also growing expectations with regard to the contribution of higher education and research to the ‘European knowledge society’. Modern societies and their sub-systems all seek new innovations and expect the universities to deliver these goods. In parallel with its success, deepening criticism of the European university is coming more and more to the fore – on the national level as well as on the European level.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

European Integration and the Governance of Higher Education and ResearchThe Mission Impossible of the European University: Institutional Confusion and Institutional Diversity

Part of the Higher Education Dynamics Book Series (volume 26)
Editors: Amaral, Alberto; Neave, Guy; Musselin, Christine; Maassen, Peter
Enders, Jürgen; De Boer, Harry
European Integration and the Governance of Higher Education and Research — Jun 8, 2009
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Copyright
© Springer Netherlands 2009
ISBN
978-1-4020-9504-7
Pages
159 –178
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4020-9505-4_7
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Abstract

[The outline for this book stresses the importance of the institutional dynamics of the European university and points to its current state of institutional confusion and search for identity. In fact, attempts to delineate some common elements of the multiple transformations of the university point to the unfolding of a most interesting paradox (Krücken et al. 2007). The European university is undeniably a success story. Research and teaching have expanded enormously; the fields of research and scholarship have multiplied and provide potential links to all other sub-systems in modern society (Frank and Meyer 2007). While there are signs of stagnation there are also growing expectations with regard to the contribution of higher education and research to the ‘European knowledge society’. Modern societies and their sub-systems all seek new innovations and expect the universities to deliver these goods. In parallel with its success, deepening criticism of the European university is coming more and more to the fore – on the national level as well as on the European level.]

Published: Jun 8, 2009

Keywords: High Education; High Education System; Knowledge Society; Student Mobility; High Education Policy

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