Higher Education and the Discourse on Global Competition: Vernacular Approaches Within Higher Education Policy Documents

2016 ◽  
pp. 23-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia S. Bagley ◽  
Laura M. Portnoi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Global Competition ◽  
Policy Documents

scholarly journals “The Bologna Process” A European Response to Global Competition in Higher Education

1969 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 109-125
Author(s):  
Hans Pechar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
The Other ◽  
Global Competition ◽  
European Level ◽  
European Higher Education ◽  
The Bologna Process

The Bologna Process is the most important recent development in higher education policy at the European level. Initially North America observed this reorganisation of Europe’s higher education architecture with some scepticism and even mild irony – if not outright ignoring it. More recently, however, the obvious success of attempts to create a “European Higher Education Area” has increased the interest on the other side of the Atlantic. This paper provides a short overview of the initial goals of the Bologna Process, the present state of implementation, and of the diffi culties this process faces. I begin by asking to what extent a European level of higher education policy making exists at all and what is its signifi cance.

scholarly journals The Complexity of Policy Mirroring: The Connection between International and Slovenian Higher Education Policy Discourse

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 9-28
Author(s):  
Janja Komljenovič
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The University

The contemporary economic imaginary of the ‘knowledge-based economy’ is changing the perception of higher education in Europe. The goals of higher education are changing and reform of institutions is predicted. The present article examines these reforms and conceptualisations of higher education by presenting the results of discourse analysis of 47  international policy documents at the European level and two comprehensive national strategies of the Republic of Slovenia for higher education, research and innovation. Based on the analysis of the European documents, the article suggests that two main discourses are constructed: a) ‘the research-based society and economy’, and b) ‘reforming the university’. These present the emergence of a new idea of higher education at the international and national levels. The article investigates the extent to which these discourses are present in Slovenian higher education policy. The findings show that Slovenian discourse hesitates to embrace them fully. In particular, the idea of the managerial university is marginal in Slovenian discourse.

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