Making Diversity Work in European Higher Education the Interplay Between Performance and Diversification
Making Diversity Work in European Higher Education the Interplay Between Performance and Diversification

Summary/Abstract: The past few decades have been marked by consistent structural changes of modes of governance in the public sector including higher education. Causes for these shifts are multiple pertaining to specific processes like massification, the rise of the “Evaluative State” with quality and performance as core elements of public delivery, and the concept of knowledge society outlining both economic and social dimensions of education. Taking into account this whole new dynamic, the paper addresses the relationship between diversity and performance in higher education by analyzing the outcomes of their interplay in terms of funding policy strategies employed both at European and national level. Accordingly, I argue that financing policies may be seen as a tool for fostering diversification of higher education systems.

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