European Higher Education and the Internal Market: Tensions Between European Policy and National Sovereignty

In: Issues in Higher Education Ser.

Abstract

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- The Chapters in Brief -- References -- Part I Dominant Political Agendas in European Higher Education -- On Principles, Europe and Higher Education: Reflections on European Higher Education as an Intersecting Normative Space -- Introduction -- Puzzle and Preliminary Definitions -- From European General Principles to European Higher Education Policy Principles -- Legal Perspective -- Policy Perspective -- The University Idea and European Higher Education Principles -- Looking for the University Principles in European Higher Education Principles -- A European or a Universal Idea? -- Conclusion: European Higher Education as an Intersecting Normative Space -- References -- Neoliberalism in European Higher Education Policy: Economic Nexus and Changing Patterns of Power and Inequality -- The System of Higher Education -- Higher Education Institutions -- The Academic Profession -- Students -- Conclusion -- References -- Juridification, Judicialisation and Judicial Activism in Higher Education: Views from the CJEU -- Introduction -- Debating and Redebating an EU Institutional Commonplace: The Court of Justice as the Engine of Ever Closer Integration -- The Court as a Focal Point for General EU Studies -- Underlying Disputes About Judicial Leadership -- Political Sensitivity -- Reasons (or Justifications) for the Court's Attitude -- Conjectures on a Recurring Controversy -- Multiple Tiles of the European Judiciary's Role in Higher Education -- Juridification -- Judicial Activism, Creativity -- Judicialisation -- The Room for Silence in Higher Education Policies -- Putting Tiles Together and the Sectoral Perspective -- Final Remarks -- References.