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Institutional Autonomy and the Attractiveness of the European Higher Education Area – Facts or Tokenistic Discourse?

Terhi Nokkala

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AttractivenessHigher educationBolognan prosessibusiness.industrymedia_common.quotation_subjectautonomiaHigh educationhoukuttelevuusBologna ProcessvetovoimaisuusyliopistoPreconditionliikkuvuusuniversityArgumentPolitical sciencePedagogyPositive economicsautonomybusinessAutonomymedia_common

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In the discourse of the Bologna Process, the notion of competitiveness as the focal goal of Bologna Process, and university autonomy as one of its founding principles are consistently linked. Autonomy is framed as a precondition of competitiveness, while competitiveness is framed in terms of attractiveness of European higher education and higher education institutions. This paper examines their relationship, discussing whether there is ground for the repeated policy argument of their going hand in hand. Do the more attractive countries have higher autonomy, are the countries with higher autonomy more attractive? Or are these phenomena linked only in the simplified arguments of the policy discourse? The analysis of OECD and other mobility data shows that there is no consistent link between autonomy and attractiveness.

http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201205151656