Higher Education System Reform

Bruno Broucker, Ph.D., is guest professor at the KU Leuven Public Governance Institute (Belgium), research fellow at the Leuven Economics of Education Research Centre and higher education expert at the Institute of Tropical Medicine. He is member of the executive committee of EAIR – the European Higher Education Society and has published articles and chapters on higher education governance and reform.Kurt De Wit, Ph.D. in Sociology, is head of the Data Management Unit of the Education Policy Department at KU Leuven (Belgium). He publishes on governance reforms, uses of (big) data, and ICT use of students in higher education.Jef C. Verhoeven, Ph.D., was Professor of Sociology at the KU Leuven (1970–2006) and is emeritus professor since 2006. He established the Centre for Sociology of Education at the KU Leuven (1977) and was head of this Centre. His recent publications are about higher education and the use of ICT, the access of Chinese ethnic minorities to Higher Education, and higher education policy.Liudvika Leišytė, Ph.D., is professor of Higher Education and vice director of the Center of Higher Education (zhb, TU Dortmund). Her research focuses on academic work and organizational transformation in the context of changing institutional environment. She has published three books, a large number of chapters in edited books and peer-reviewed articles in Higher Education, Higher Education Policy, Public Administration, Public Management, Science and Public Policy and Studies in Higher Education.

• b>ForewordRosalind Pritchard>List of Figures and TablesNotes on Contributors1. An Introduction on the Study of Higher Education Policy ReformsJef C. Verhoeven, Liudvika Leišyte, Kurt De Wit and Bruno Broucker>2. Higher Education System Reform in Flanders (Belgium)Kurt De Wit, Jef C. Verhoeven and Bruno Broucker>3. Higher Education System Reform in GermanySude Peksen and Nadine Zeeman>4. The Higher Education System in the Netherlands: Overview and Analysis of Changes Induced by the Bologna ProcessChristine Teelken>5. Higher Education Reforms in Finland: From a Ponderous to a More Agile System?Jani Ursin>6. Higher Education System Reform in Denmark in the Bologna EraPalle Rasmussen>7. The Bologna Process: Reforms in Italian Higher EducationTommaso Agasisti and Martina Dal Molin>8. Reforms in the Spanish Higher Education System Since Democracy and Future ChallengesEva M. De La Torre and Carmen Perez-Esparrells>9. Reconfiguring Portuguese Higher Education: Between National and European PrioritiesAmélia Veiga and António Magalhães>10. “Part of the Furniture”: Ireland, Bologna, and Two Decades of Higher Education ReformAndrew G. Gibson and Ellen Hazelkorn>11. Intensification of Neo-liberal Reform of Higher Education in England or ‘Change’ as ‘More of the Same’?Lisa Lucas>12. Higher Education Reforms in Lithuania: Two Decades after BolognaLiudvika Leišyte, Anna-Lena Rose AND Rimantas Želvys>13. The Bologna Reform in HungaryGergely Kováts>14. Understanding Higher Education System Reform: Practices, Patterns and PathwaysBruno Broucker, Liudvika Leišyte, Kurt De Wit and Jef C. Verhoeven>

"The analyses in this book will give all of us working in academia a clear image of where we currently stand [in higher education] as a united Europe, and may contribute to making further plans and ambitions more concrete. Given the current European political context, this seems to be more important than ever before." - Liesbeth van Welie, Leiden University and Saxion Hogescholen, in: Th&ma, 2019 (3): 79-80 [translated from the original Dutch text]