The politics of higher education: the European Higher Education Area through the eyes of its stakeholders in France and Italy

Kushnir, I ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0727-7208 and Yazgan, N, 2023. The politics of higher education: the European Higher Education Area through the eyes of its stakeholders in France and Italy. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10: 774. ISSN 2662-9992

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Abstract

This article explores recent politics of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) by focusing on the examination of the continuing involvement of France and Italy in it, which are two – of the EHEA’s founding countries. The study reported in this article is built on a theoretical observation that higher education is political. It relies on expert interviews with representatives from key policy-making institutions in France and Italy, and key recent EHEA official communications. The thematic analysis of these data sources reveals that the EHEA is not just a forum for higher education cooperation, but a political platform for cross-country relations in the European region and a platform for generating responses to crises. Additionally, specifically, France’s and Italy’s continuing involvement in the EHEA has a particular political undertone dictated by the internal politics of both countries and the evolving politics of the EHEA. This study contributes to a better understanding of the political nature of the EHEA and its implications for higher education policy outcomes.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Creators:	Kushnir, I. and Yazgan, N.
Publisher:	Springer Nature
Date:	December 2023
Volume:	10
ISSN:	2662-9992
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1057/s41599-023-02300-x DOI 1830439 Other
Rights:	© The Author(s) 2023. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Institute of Education
Record created by:	Laura Ward
Date Added:	06 Nov 2023 15:28
Last Modified:	06 Nov 2023 15:28
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/50285

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