The globalisation challenge for European higher education: convergence and diversity, centres and peripheries

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Contents: Pavel Zgaga/Ulrich Teichler/John Brennan: Challenges for European Higher Education: Global and National, Europe and sub-Europes - Janja Komljenovic/Klemen Miklavic: Imagining Higher Education in the European Knowledge Economy: Discourse and Ideas in Communications of the EU - Ulrich Teichler: The Event of International Mobility in the Course of Study - The European Objective - Ellen Hazelkorn/Martin Ryan: The Impact of University Rankings on Higher Education in Europe: A Challenge to Perceived Wisdom and a Stimulus for Change - Elsa Hackl: Diversification in Austrian Higher Education: A Result of European or National Policies? - Manja Klemencic: The Effects of Europeanisation on Institutional Diversification in the Western Balkans - Voldemar Tomusk: The Monolithic Un-intentionality of Higher Education Policies: On the Continuing Importance of Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin and the Minor Classics Less Known - Susan L. Robertson: Hullabaloo in the Groves of Academe: The Politics of Instituting a Market in English Higher Education - John Brennan: Higher Education Differentiation and the Myth of Meritocracy: The Case of the UK - Leon Cremonini: The Recognition of Prior Learning and Dutch Higher Education - At cross-purposes? - Marek Kwiek: From System Expansion to System Contraction. Access to Higher Education in Poland - Martina Vukasovic/Mari Elken: Higher Education Dynamics in a Multi-level Governance Context: A Comparative Study of Four Post-communist Countries - Jana Bacevic: What Kind of University for What Kind of Society? Nation-States, Post-National Constellations, and Higher Education in the Post-Yugoslav Space - Tatjana Sekulic: The Bosnian Puzzle of Higher Education in the Perspective of the Bologna Process - Danijela Dolenec/Karin Doolan: Reclaiming the Role of Higher Education in Croatia: Dominant and Oppositional Framings - Pavel Zgaga: Reconsidering Higher Education Reforms in the Western Balkans: Policy Colonies or Policy Autarchies?