Higher Education in Europe, Volume 34 Issue 3 & 4

Higher Education in Europe, Volume 34 Issue 3 & 4 2009
A Barometer of Change: Celebrating Achievements and Identifying the Challenges for a New Era in Higher Education

Introduction
Back to the Future: Introduction and Reflection by the Editor
Peter J. Wells
Pages 299 – 302

Articles
The Bologna Process and Internationalization – Consequences for Italian Academic Life
Helena Aittola; Ulla Kiviniemi; Sanna Honkimäki; Reetta Muhonen; Mira Huusko; Jani Ursin
Pages 303 – 312
Student Opinion of the Information Policies of Four Spanish Universities with Regard to Erasmus and Other International Programmes
Ignacio J. Alfaro; Alfredo Pérez Boullosa; J. Vicente Andreu-Besó; José De Lamo; Luis Sobrado; Rafael Sanz; José M. Arias
Pages 313 – 332
Adaptation of Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations Graduate Courses in Spain to the European Higher Education Area
Virginia Barba-Sánchez
Pages 333 – 346
Aligning American Higher Education with a Twenty-first-century Public Agenda. Examining the National Purposes of American Higher Education: A Leadership Approach to Policy Reform
James J. Duderstadt
Pages 347 – 366
The International Research Training Group (GRK532): Practicing Cross-border Postgraduate Education
Markus Ehses; Michael Veith
Pages 367 – 384
Legal Developments and Problems of the Bologna Process within the European Higher Education Area and European Integration
Roberto Cippitani; Suzanne Gatt
Pages 385 – 397
Professionalization in Universities and European Convergence
Amparo Jimenez Vivas; David Menendez Alvarez Hevia
Pages 399 – 409
Continuity and Change in the Academic Profession in European Countries
Francesc Pedró
Pages 411 – 429
Employment Pattern Pressure for Pragmatic Change in Universities: Azerbaijan Case Study
Ruslan Sadirkhanov
Pages 431 – 444
Organization and Management of Continuing Education in German and Finnish Universities
Olaf Zawacki-Richter; Michaela Knust; Anke Hanft
Pages 445 – 458
Diversification or Homogenization in Higher Education: A Global Allomorphism Perspective
Qiang Zha
Pages 459 – 479
The Promise and Challenge of Increasing Access to Higher Education: Notes from a Romanian/United States Comparative Analysis
Silvia Florea; Erin McNamara Horvat
Pages 481 – 495
The General Concept of Benchmarking and its Application in Higher Education in Europe
Joanicjusz Nazarko; Katarzyna Anna Kuźmicz; Elżbieta Szubzda-Prutis; Joanna Urban
Pages 497 – 510

Tribune
Motivation to Study in Higher Education: A Comparison between Germany and Great Britain
Sandra Loeber; Helen E. Higson
Pages 511 – 521
Training Emotional and Social Competences in Higher Education: The Seminar Methodology
Ursula Oberst; Josep Gallifa; Núria Farriols; Anna Vilaregut
Pages 523 – 533