The European Higher Education Area. Between Critical Reflections and Future Policies

 
In the first 15 years of the twenty-first century, the evolution of higher education in Europe was both predictable and special. The period of massification and globalisation, fuelled by the prevailing narratives that the knowledge society of the future required ever more schooling for larger proportions of the population and the European integration narrative suggesting that a genuine European identity could be constructed, reshaped the very foundations of European higher education.