The European University at a Crossroads

When we consider the European university, or indeed the university worldwide, this is a moment in which it is as important to look back as to look forward. In the case of Europe, we are now right in the middle of the Bologna process. It is a period prone to intense fluctuations between positive and negative evaluations, between a sense that it is either too late or too early to achieve the results aimed at. In my view, such intense fluctuations in analysis and evaluation are a sign that every...