Higher Education in Europe in the Context of Global Developments

Abstract

This chapter analyses how global issues and problems in higher education are reflected in the European higher education systems. The chapter starts from the premise that almost all forms of thinking and doing research about higher education are close to politics. But saying something about how global problems in higher education are reflected in the European higher education systems requires a selection or examples. After briefly defining globalisation, internationalisation and Europeanisation of higher education and clarifying how these three concepts are related to each other, the chapter focuses on six examples: migration, academic freedom, increasing marketization, competition and rankings, cooperation in higher education, and last but not least, higher education in times of the Corona pandemic.