This paper argues that the Communities of Inquiry pedagogy provides valuable guidance for the design and implementation of higher education learning environments. The paper outlines the essential features of the pedagogy and its alignment with social constructivist approaches to education. The...

Competition, collaboration and complementarity : higher education policies in Europe / Frank Ziegele and Lisa Mordhorst -- Current challenges to academic freedom: academic capitalism and neo-nationalism / Sheila Slaughter -- Investigating organisational identity in HEIs / Lise Degn -- Gender...

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...

Understanding and improving the performance of public higher education institutions is a matter of growing interest to university and government leaders. To this end, this article surveys dimensions of recent approaches to productivity measurement in higher education, illustrating trends,...