Chapter 1 Sustaining the European Higher Education Area

Unravelling the Internal and External Views on Unifying an International Region

In: Sustaining the Future of Higher Education
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Bruno Broucker
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Abstract

In the past much has been said about the Bologna reforms that have taken place in Europe, the impact the Bologna Process had on national higher education systems, and the gap between what was initially planned and what was finally achieved. This chapter aims to bring a different perspective by discussing the (un)intended internal and external effects of the Bologna Process at the level of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) as a whole. Internally the Bologna Process has increased collaboration, comparability and harmonisation of policy and processes across higher education systems. Because of this, European values such as connectedness, collaboration, sense of unity and increased intercultural understanding have become vivid and supported by many systems. Externally the Bologna Process, with its openly competitive approach, influenced the perception of other continents towards the EHEA and inspired reform of higher education systems in areas around the globe. This chapter discusses what the Bologna Process has meant for the EHEA as a whole, what it has accomplished, and what not. Based on an exploratory review of the relevant scholarly literature, the chapter describes the major positive and negative effects both from an internal and an external perspective to the EHEA.

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Introduction Sustainability of Higher Education in Uncertain Times
Chapter 1 Sustaining the European Higher Education Area
Chapter 2 Striving for Research Excellence by Understanding Institutional Rationalities
Chapter 3 When Excellence Meets Relevance
Chapter 4 Student Driven Innovations
Chapter 5 Experiences of Academic Leadership in Ireland 2008–2014
Chapter 6 Using Innovative Observation to Improve Teaching and Learning
Chapter 7 Using Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) for Building Youth Consciousness on Democracy in Everyday Life (DIEL) in India
Chapter 8 Linkages between Academic Culture and Management in Polish Higher Education
Chapter 9 Exploring the Impact of Student Mobility and Extracurricular Engagement on Academic Performance and Graduate Outcomes
Chapter 10 Can the New COVID-19 Normal Help to Achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4?
Chapter 11 The Roles of Higher Education Managers in Germany
Chapter 12 The Incomplete PDCA Cycle in the Research, Development and Innovation Activities at a Finnish UAS
Chapter 13 Organisational Change in Student Affairs

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