Research for the CULT Committee – Modernisation of higher education

Please note: Each EPRS Study is assigned a DOI (digital object identifier), which is a safe and long term way of ensuring a hyperlink to the full text of this report. However, when ESO creates this record, on occasion the DOI still has not been activated by the EU Bookshop. If you find the source url hyperlink does not work please use the alternative location hyperlink listed as a related url.This study analyses the policy developments since the European Commission’s 2011 agenda for the modernisation of Europe’s higher education systems and assess the developments against the aims of the agenda.

Second, it summarises most important achievements, shortcomings and challenges, to assess the effectiveness of the policy measures taken to reach the objectives set out in the 2011 agenda.

Third, it assesses the renewed EU agenda in the light of these achievements, shortcomings and challenges and its renewed objectives.

Last, it makes recommendations for actions by the European Parliament's Culture and Education Committee (CULT) including follow-up with other major stakeholders.

European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: Study, October 2017: Research for the CULT Committee - Modernisation of higher education http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2017/602002/IPOL_STU(2017)602002_EN.pdf

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