Abstract

This chapter discusses why governance and funding are currently serious matters of concern for public policy in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). It argues that discussions about governance are particularly intense in times of major change in the world around higher education, and that we are once again traversing such a period in Europe. External ruptures in society at-large and changing trends in higher education, which influence the policy discussions and reform initiatives on governance are summarized. The chapter puts forward a synopsis of some of the most important developments in governance and funding since the start of the Bologna Process and launch of the EHEA, and points to important current challenges. Finally, it introduces the papers of the governance and funding section of this volume.

Highlights

  • There are notable episodes of “soul-searching” in the history of higher education

  • Another paper in the governance section (Jongbloed et al in this volume) looks at policy initiatives that bring about new funding tools and principles, with new understandings of autonomy and efficiency in universities. In light of both ongoing and newly emerging developments in Europe that are expected to influence the course of higher education in the immediate future in the area of governance and funding, in particular, several important questions appear to need to be asked: 8EUSTREAM: Universities for Strategic, Efficient, and Autonomous Management, described at http://www.eua.be/activities-services/projects/current-projects/governance-funding-public-policy/ ustream

  • What is the future of the European Higher Education Area that the European integration process is stalled, or perhaps reversed?

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Introduction

There are notable episodes of “soul-searching” in the history of higher education. One such moment was around the turn of the third millennium in Europe, when the project of a European Higher Education Area (EHEA) was launched.1 Those were times of sweeping, mainly positive changes, economically and politically. Another part was about how universities should be organised and directed in order to fulfil their (new) role, about what is usually called, in the language of higher education policy, governance and steering tools (including funding, in particular). Governance and Funding of Universities in the European Higher Education Area...

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