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Student Mobility in Portugal: Grappling with Adversity
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Sin, Cristina; Tavares, Orlanda; Neave, Guy – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2017
The article examines how far the key Bologna objective of student mobility has been achieved in Portuguese higher education institutions and the main factors shaping it. It analyzes credit mobility, outgoing and incoming, between Portugal and Europe. Although mobility overall has risen, incoming mobility has grown faster, making Portugal an…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Higher Education, Labor Market, Unemployment
Employability Deconstructed: Perceptions of Bologna Stakeholders
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Sin, Cristina; Neave, Guy – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
The paper analyses employability as a floating signifier--a construct that accommodates different and often contending meanings. A preliminary analysis of scholarly literature identifies two opposed interpretations of employability--an individual responsibility versus a comprehensive context-aware construct. These are subsequently applied to the…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Perception, Stakeholders, Foreign Countries
The Bologna Process: Inception, "Take Up" and Familiarity
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Neave, Guy; Veiga, Amelia – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2013
This paper addresses the value of the Bologna Process in placing the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) on a solid institutional footing. How far has Bologna contributed to firming up the views academia, management and students have of the EHEA? The article is based on a survey administered across four systems of higher education in 2008. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Cooperation, Student Mobility, Higher Education
Managing the Dynamics of the Bologna Reforms: How Institutional Actors Re-Construct the Policy Framework
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Veiga, Amélia; Neave, Guy – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
How do the constituencies in higher education re-interpret Bologna's function with regard to the European Higher Education Area? This research examines how institutional actors re-construct the policy framework in the light of their own institutional agendas. Drawing on empirical data from a survey of academics, students and administrative and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, National Standards
Higher Education in Transition: Twenty-Five Years On.
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Neave, Guy – Higher Education Management, 1996
Notes that over the quarter-century of the Council for Economic Co-operation and Development's Program on Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE), study of higher education has developed considerably. New disciplines have emerged, new ideologies have altered perspectives, and higher education's priorities continue to change.…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Administration, Comparative Education, Educational Change
Policy and Response: Changing Perceptions and Priorities in the Vocational Training Policy of the E.E.C. Commission.
Neave, Guy – 1986
In 1984 the Commission of the European Communities (EEC) disbursed some $1.437 billion in support of a range of retraining, relocation, and job creation measures intended to help youth. The EEC's policy toward vocationalization was first defined in 1963. In the 1970s the commission began to reassess its reason for existence, which led it to…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Planning