MACMILLAN European Higher Education and the Internal Market: Tensions Between European Policy and National Sovereignty (Issues in Higher Education)

Product Description 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. Review “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) Review “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) About the Author 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.