GLOBAL AND EUROPEAN TRENDS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR UNIVERSITY CURRICULA

摘要

This paper looks at the various effects of globalization on higher education, analyzing how the closer relationship between economy, the state and the university fit into the concepts and rhetoric of "knowledge society" and "mode 2 university". The focus is on recent developments in the European higher education, particularly on the changes triggered by the signing of the Bologna declaration. In a somewhat narrower sense, the paper also discusses the ways in which the Bologna process - its values, principles, and objectives - should prompt not only structural, but also content related, changes in university curricula.