Universities and the Europe of Knowledge

This is a story of the EC at work over 50 years, seen from the perspective of a developing European higher education policy. The book provides a rich background narrative to current strategic efforts to develop the Europe of Knowledge, and to the Bologna Process. Its analytic interest in ideas and individual 'policy entrepreneurs' underpins the story and advances understanding of the EU policy process and of the phenomenon of policy entrepreneurship.

Auteur
ANNE CORBETT has written extensively on education from France, as well as Britain, as a journalist. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Institute of Management of the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, an associate of LSE's European Institute, deputy chairman of the Franco-British Council (British section) and active in the University Association for Contemporary European Studies. In 1996 she co-edited Education in France, Continuity and Change in the Mitterrand Years 1981-95 with Bob Moon. She was made an Officier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French minister of education in January 2005 for work on university co-operation.

Contenu
List of Abbreviations Preface PART I: UNIVERSITIES AND THE EUROPE OF KNOWLEDGE Ideas Do Not Arrive Out of the Blue PART II: THE CREATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF AN EC HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY Origins: The Proposal for a European Community University, 1955-57 Conflicting Visions of European Higher Education, 1958-61 Experimenting with Intergovernmentalism, 1961-69 Creating the Policy Domain for Higher Education, 1970-72 Stabilising the Policy Domain, 1973-76 Implementing the Action Programme in Higher Education, 1977-84 Attaining a Goal: The Erasmus Decision, 1985-87 PART III: THE EUROPE OF KNOWLEDGE - WHY THE IDEA RECURS Policy Entrepreneurship in EU Higher Education: Process, Actions, Identities Conclusions Epilogue Appendices Notes Primary Sources Bibliography Index