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23 SES 04 C, Globalization, Europeanization and Higher Education Reforms
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Differentiation was initiated in the 1960s in many European countries by structurally transforming, at the system level, predominantly university-dominated systems into binary systems of higher education. A key issue for my thesis is whether differentiation may be seen as a response to external pressures (notably European Union policies linked to the ‘knowledge economy’), linking this to converging theories of European higher education systems under the combined influence of the Bologna Process, the Lisbon Strategy, Horizon 2020, European mobility schemes and funding opportunities or instead whether higher education reform, and differentiation in particular, is a more long-term feature of the development of national higher education systems. Trow’s linear model of development of higher education systems from elite to mass to universal (1973) may be of relevance since it appears that in Ireland, participation has reached the universal phase (over 50%). Differentiation may be a tool enabling to deal with this transition, typical of a system whose priority is to prepare the whole population to rapid technological change (Brennan in Trow, 2005, p.1). The extent to which differentiation is being promoted as a policy and actually implemented as a process on the ground, within and between higher education institutions will be the main focus of this study. These questions will be answered through a single-case study of the Irish higher education system. Research methods will include policy document analysis and semi-structured interviews at all three global, national and local levels of the ‘glonacal agency heuristic’ (Marginson & Rhodes, 2002).
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