European Higher Education and the Internal Market

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Introduction

   • Sónia Cardoso, Maria J. Rosa, Cristina Sin, Orlanda Tavares

   Pages 1-18

3. Dominant Political Agendas in European Higher Education

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. On Principles, Europe and Higher Education: Reflections on European Higher Education as an Intersecting Normative Space

      • Pauline Ravinet

      Pages 21-45

   3. Neoliberalism in European Higher Education Policy: Economic Nexus and Changing Patterns of Power and Inequality

      • Peter Streckeisen

      Pages 47-72

   4. Juridification, Judicialisation and Judicial Activism in Higher Education: Views from the CJEU

      • Fausto Comandè, Jan De Groof

      Pages 73-126

   5. Differentiated Integration in the Field of Higher Education: Between Theory and Practices of (Non)Integration

      • Amélia Veiga, António Magalhães

      Pages 127-160

   6. The EC Communications, the Knowledge Society and Their Influence Over Higher Education

      • Alberto Amaral, Andrée Sursock

      Pages 161-192

   7. The Expansion of Markets and the Rise of Skills: Two Roads Leading to the Same Place—Higher Education in the Current Agendas of the International Organisations

      • Alma Maldonado-Maldonado

      Pages 193-228

4. Tools for European Integration in Higher Education

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229

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   2. The Bologna Process and the Unachieved Potential for the Creation of a Common Higher Education Market

      • Cristina Sin, Orlanda Tavares

      Pages 231-254

   3. Higher Education as a Service: Denying the Obvious

      • Anne van Wageningen

      Pages 255-286

   4. Overburdening Higher Education? The Europeanisation of the Professional Complex

      • Eva Hartmann

      Pages 287-308

   5. The Recognition of Professional Qualifications : The Part Played by the European University Association in the Alignment of EU Legislation with the Bologna Process

      • Howard Davies

      Pages 309-335

   6. European Policy Implementation: Challenges for Higher Education Quality Assurance

      • Sónia Cardoso, Maria J. Rosa

      Pages 337-360

5. Conclusion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 361-361

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   2. The Visible Hand of the Market in European Higher Education Policies

      • Orlanda Tavares, Cristina Sin

      Pages 363-377

6. Back Matter

   Pages 379-383

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This book analyses European higher education policies and their three main drivers: the European Commission, the European Court of Justice and the building of the European Higher Education Area through the Bologna Process. Central to the volume is the issue of European institutions’ intervention in higher education: building a common area for higher education in a domain protected by subsidiarity is no easy task, and one that must consider the supra-national, national and institutional levels that all play a role in policy implementation. In this volume, the editors and contributors navigate within the tensions between the establishment of an internal market on the one hand and national sovereignty on the other. This volume will surely be of interest and value to those studying and working in the area of higher education policy and understanding relationships between European institutions and member states.

• Higher Education Policy
• Education and the Market
• Students as Consumers
• Europe and Higher Education
• Qualty assurance in higher education
• sovereignty and higher education

“An aspiration for many scholars is to make their work relevant beyond their immediate community. This book is one which has the potential to do so. It tackles a question of general interest to European scholarship: what happens when institutions collide within the EU. … This book opens up possibilities for further work in this area … .” (Anne Corbett, European Journal of Higher Education, October 03, 2019)

“Creeping competence, amazing interpretations. Here is an uncomfortable peeling aside of the Bruxelles Commission’s stances – sometimes called higher education policy – vis-a-vis the universities, polytechnics and teacher training colleges in its several Member States. It is, however, an account revealing, elegant and greatly necessary for both accuracy, understanding and, finally, to set straight the historical record, strange though the latter has been this quarter century past.” (Guy Neave, Twente University, Netherlands)

• Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES), Matosinhos, Portugal

  Cristina Sin

• Centre for Research in Higher Education Policy (CIPES), Matosinhos, Portugal

  Orlanda Tavares, Sónia Cardoso

• Department of Economics, Management, Industrial Engineering and Tourism, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

  Maria J. Rosa

Cristina Sin is Researcher at the Portuguese Agency for Assessment and Accreditation (A3ES) and at CIPES, Portugal.


Orlanda Tavares is Researcher at A3ES and CIPES, Portugal.


Sónia Cardoso is Researcher at A3ES and CIPES, Portugal.


Maria João Rosa is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Management, Industrial Engineering and Tourism at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. She is also Senior Researcher at CIPES, Portugal.

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