The Governance of European Higher Education: Convergence or Divergence?

The Governance of European Higher Education: Convergence or Divergence analyses governance at state and institutional levels in five European higher education systems chosen as representative of European higher education as a whole: Germany, Hungary, Norway, Portugal and the UK (as in England, Scotland and Wales). Drawing on 180 detailed face-to-face interviews with policymakers and universities the book explores the extent to which governance and systems have been converging or diverging towards or away from a common European model over the last decade and records the evidence of growing directional controls exercised by the various states.

Michael Shattock is Visiting Professor at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford, UK.

Aniko Horvath is Assistant Professor in the Department of Organization Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and is Researcher at the Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE) at the University of Oxford, UK.

Jurgen Enders is Professor of Higher Education Management at the University of Bath, UK.