Managing the Dynamics of the Bologna Reforms: How Institutional Actors Re-Construct the Policy Framework

Authors

  • Amelia Veiga Centre for Research on Higher Education Policies (CIPES) & the Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5220-4019
  • Guy Neave Centre for Research on Higher Education Policies (CIPES)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v23.1891

Keywords:

Bologna process, European Higher Education Area, Academic Administrative and Student Constituencies, Perceptions of Bologna dynamic

Abstract

How do the constituencies in higher education re-interpret Bologna’s function with regard to the European Higher Education Area? This research examines how institutional actors re-construct the policy framework in the light of their own institutional agendas. Drawing on empirical data from a survey of Academics, Students and Administrators in seven universities in Germany, Italy, Norway and Portugal, the analysis focuses on the processes of mediation within national and European policy depending on the location of institutional actors. It dissects the tensions between macro political processes and the role status and function of the different constituencies and sheds new light on the role played by the Academic, Administrative and Student Estates in re-interpreting the Bologna Declaration whilst adopting the reforms it introduces.

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Author Biographies

Amelia Veiga, Centre for Research on Higher Education Policies (CIPES) & the Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES)

Amélia Veiga is researcher at Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES) and at the Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES). Her main research interests lie in higher education policy analysis, in particular governing and governance in higher education, European integration, internationalization and globalization of higher education. She has been involved in national and international projects on these matters. Her recent works include papers on differentiated integration and on the impact of Bologna process at the institutional level under a comparative perspective.

 

Guy Neave, Centre for Research on Higher Education Policies (CIPES)

Guy Neave is currently Director of Research at CIPES. In addition to being Founder Editor of Higher Education Policy (Palgrave) he was joint Editor in Chief with Burton R Clark of the Encycleopdia of Higher Education (1992) Neave has been the Professor of Comparative Education at the University of London Institute of Education (1985 – 1990), and is Professor Emeritus of Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (Uiversiteit Twente, Netherlands (Netherlands). In 1999 he was elected Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Education. An historian by training, his interests lie in European Integration, and Goverment Higher Education relations.

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Published

2015-06-22

How to Cite

Veiga, A., & Neave, G. (2015). Managing the Dynamics of the Bologna Reforms: How Institutional Actors Re-Construct the Policy Framework. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 23, 59. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v23.1891

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