Table Of ContentAdrian Curaj · Liviu Matei
Remus Pricopie · Jamil Salmi
Peter Scott Editors
The European
Higher
Education Area
Between Critical Reflections
and Future Policies
The European Higher Education Area
Adrian Curaj Liviu Matei
(cid:129)
Remus Pricopie Jamil Salmi
(cid:129)
Peter Scott
Editors
The European Higher
Education Area
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Between Critical Re ections
and Future Policies
Editors
Adrian Curaj JamilSalmi
UEFISCDI &SNSPA GlobalTertiary EducationExpert
Bucharest Rockville, MD
Romania USA
Liviu Matei PeterScott
Central European University of Budapest Institute of Education
Budapest London
Hungary UK
RemusPricopie
National University ofPolitical Studies
andPublicAdministration (SNSPA)
Bucharest
Romania
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Contents
Contents of Part 1
Part I Internationalization of Higher Education
Internationalization of Higher Education—What Can Research
Add to the Policy Debate? [Overview Paper] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Hans de Wit, Ligia Deca and Fiona Hunter
Internationalization of Higher Education: Navigating Between
Contrasting Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Sarah Guri-Rosenblit
Balanced Mobility Across the Board—A Sensible Objective?. . . . . . . . 27
Irina Ferencz
Challenges of Student Mobility in a Cosmopolitan Europe . . . . . . . . . 43
Janine Wulz and Florian Rainer
Redefining Internationalization at Home. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Jos Beelen and Elspeth Jones
The Impact of Exposure to Diversity in the International
University Environment and the Development of Intercultural
Competence in Students. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Jeanine Gregersen-Hermans
Internationalisation as a Lever for Change: The Case of Italy. . . . . . . 93
Fiona Hunter
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Becoming Bologna Capable: Strategic Cooperation and Capacity
Building in International Offices in Kazakhstani HEIs . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Jason Sparks, Adil Ashirbekov, Aisi Li, Lynne Parmenter,
Zakir Jumakulov and Aida Sagintayeva
Internationalization Strategies and Policies in Second-Tier Higher
Education Institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Hans de Wit, Miri Yemini and Randall Martin
Part II Higher Education Financing and Governance
Background Note for the Section on Financing and Governance
[Overview Paper] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Liviu Matei
Strategies for Efficient Funding of Universities in Europe . . . . . . . . . . 153
Enora Bennetot Pruvot, Anna-Lena Claeys-Kulik
and Thomas Estermann
Financing Research Universities in Post-communist EHEA
Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Ernő Keszei, Frigyes Hausz, Attila Fonyó and Béla Kardon
Policy Incentives and Research Productivity in the Romanian
Higher Education. An Institutional Approach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Lazăr Vlăsceanu and Marian-Gabriel Hâncean
Patterns of Funding Internationalisation of Higher Education.
A Conceptual Framework for the Study of Internationalisation. . . . . . 205
Liviu Matei, Julia Iwinska and Daniela Crăciun
The Evolving Landscape of South-East Asian Higher Education
and the Challenges of Governance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Sauwakon Ratanawijitrasin
Part III Excellence and Diversification of Higher Education
Institutions’ Missions
Seeking Excellence, Practicing Rankings, and Aiming
at Diversification of Higher Education Institutions’ Mission
in the European Higher Education Area [Overview Paper] . . . . . . . . . 241
Jan Sadlak
Contents vii
Excellence-DrivenPoliciesandInitiativesintheContextofBologna
Process: Rationale, Design, Implementation and Outcomes . . . . . . . . . 249
Isak Froumin and Mikhail Lisyutkin
The Knowledge Society and Diversification of Higher Education:
From the Social Contract to the Mission of Universities . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Attila Pausits
Excellence and Diversification of Higher Education Institutions’
Missions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Marco Porzionato and Federica De Marco
“New” Rankings on the Scene: The U21 Ranking of National
Higher Education Systems and U-Multirank. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Gergely Kováts
Part IV Teaching, Learning and Student Engagement
Teaching and Learning: An Overview of the Thematic
Section [Overview Paper]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Manja Klemenčič and Paul Ashwin
Teaching and Learning: A Journey from the Margins to the Core
in European Higher Education Policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Cristina Sin
The Meanings of Student Engagement: Implications for Policies
and Practices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Paul Ashwin and Debbie McVitty
How Do We Know How Students Experience Higher Education?
On the Use of Student Surveys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Manja Klemenčič and Igor Chirikov
Understanding Quality of Learning in Digital Learning
Environments: State of the Art and Research Needed. . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
Bernadette Charlier, Laurent Cosnefroy, Annie Jézégou
and Geneviève Lameul
Assessment of Learning Outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
Hamish Coates
Giving Voice to Non-traditional Students “Walking” the Narative
Mediation Path. An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. . . . . . . 415
DanFlorinStănescu,Elena-MădălinaIorga,JoséGonzálezMonteagudo
and Maria Francesca Freda
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Part V Social Dimension and Equity of Higher Education
Equity and the Social Dimension: An Overview [Overview Paper]. . . . 433
Alex Usher
No Future for the Social Dimension? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
Florian Kaiser, Aengus Ó. Maoláin and Līva Vikmane
A Comprehensive Approach to Investigating the Social
Dimension in European Higher Education Systems—
EUROSTUDENT and the PL4SD Country Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
Dominic Orr and Shweta Mishra
How Did the Latest Increase in Fees in England Affect Student
Enrolment and Inequality? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
Koen Geven
Struggling with Social Polarization. Student Financial Support
in Romania in the Framework of the Bologna Process . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
Daniela Alexe, Cezar Mihai Hâj and Bogdan Murgescu
Premises of Inclusive Access and Success of Roma People
in the Romanian Higher Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
Diana-Maria Cismaru, Cristina Fiţ and Delia Gologan
Contents of Part 2
Part VI Education, Research and Innovation
Bridging Education, Research and Innovation: The Pivotal Role
of Doctoral Training [Overview Paper]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541
Marzia Foroni
European Doctoral Programs in Light of EHEA and ERA . . . . . . . . . 545
Nicola Vittorio
Tuning Tools and Insights for Modern Competence-Based
Third-Cycle Programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561
Ann Katherine Isaacs
Enhancing the Quality of Research in Europe: Theoretical
Perspectives on and Guiding Principles for Researcher
Development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573
Linda Evans
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The Quality of Doctoral Training and Employability
of Doctorate Holders: The Views of Doctoral Candidates
and Junior Researchers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593
Filomena Parada and John Peacock
The Romanian PhD Students at CERN: The Bologna Process
and Beyond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613
Alexandru Nicolin and Florin Buzatu
Part VII Quality Assurance
European Quality Assurance—A European Higher Education
Area Success Story [Overview Paper]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625
Hanne Smidt
International Quality Reviews with an EQAR-Registered Agency . . . . 639
Melinda Szabo
A Merry-Go-Round of Evaluations Moving from Administrative
Burden to Reflection on Education and Research in Romania. . . . . . . 665
Koen Geven and Adina Maricuţ
Students as Stakeholders in the Policy Context of the European
Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Higher
Education Institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685
Frauke Logermann and Liudvika Leišytė
Negotiating Liminality in Higher Education: Formal and Informal
Dimensions of the Student Experience as Facilitators of Quality . . . . . 703
Vanessa Rutherford and Ian Pickup
Part VIII The Impacts of the Bologna Process on the EHEA
and Beyond
The EHEA at the Cross-Roads. The Bologna Process
and the Future of Higher Education [Overview Paper] . . . . . . . . . . . . 727
Sjur Bergan
Current and Future Prospects for the Bologna Process
in the Turkish Higher Education System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743
Armağan Erdoğan
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The Bologna Process Goes East? from “Third Countries”
to Prioritizing Inter-regional Cooperation Between the ASEAN
and EU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763
Que Anh Dang
Future Scenarios for the European Higher Education Area:
Exploring the Possibilities of “Experimentalist Governance” . . . . . . . . 785
Robert Harmsen
Part IX Evidence-Based Policies in Higher Education:
Data Analytics, Impact Assessment and Reporting
Evidence-Based Policies in Higher Education: Data Analytics,
Impact Assessment and Reporting [Overview Paper]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807
Jamil Salmi
Higher Education Research in Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815
Ulrich Teichler
AComparativeStudyonCost-SharinginHigherEducation—Using
the Case Study Approach to Contribute to Evidence-Based Policy. . . . 849
Dominic Orr
Does Research Influence Educational Policy? The Perspective
of Researchers and Policy-Makers in Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865
Georgeta Ion and Romiţă Iucu
Changed Academic Relationship Between Professors and Students
at Uni Potsdam: Impact of Bologna 2011–2012. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 881
Christen Hairston
