The process of restructuring European universities in order to harmonize their educational systems is rapidly approaching a key milestone as 2010 looms large on the horizon. This paper describes an approach to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) based on a real case study of students that...

1980s in Germany, Britain, France and Italy suggests a convergent and consistent process of homogenisation driven chiefly by institutional mimetic isomorphism. This new 'organisational settlement' is increasingly shaped by the structural autonomisation of individual service delivery units. This...

Die Untersuchung stellt den Wettbewerb als Mittel zur Reform der Hochschulausbildung ins Zentrum der Überlegungen. Dass der Wettbewerb ein geeignetes Mittel sei, die gegenwärtige Hochschulmisere zu lindern oder zu beseitigen, wird seit einigen Jahren auch von Bildungspolitikern gesehen,...

Based on a disaggregate cross-country analysis, we investigate the performance of 10 public Swiss universities and 77 public German universities from 2001-2007. During this period the universities in both countries have faced two major reforms aimed at improving efficiency and productivity in...