The last decade has marked the European higher education with a
particular dynamics. Today, after a decade of a «concerted» policy,
national systems look much more convergent but new questions and
dilemmas are emerging: about its nature and quality, about real impact
of recent reforms in different countries as well as about its future.
The book examines the impact of Europe-wide and global developments on
national higher education systems. The authors try in particular to
upfront issues of convergence and diversity, of equity and of the
relationship of centres and peripheries in higher education. The book is
an outcome of research collaboration between six institutes which
developed a EuroHESC research proposal on the consequences of expanded
and differentiated higher education systems.