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Изключителност, изключване и рисковете на Болонския процес
Excellence, Exclusion and the Risks of Bologna Process

Author(s): Ivelina Ivanova, Todor Hristov
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Фондация за хуманитарни и социални изследвания - София
Keywords: excellence; Bologna process; higher education; intangible assets; neoliberalism; capitalism

Summary/Abstract: The paper claims that European policies conceive the quality of higher education as a particular kind of intangible asset – excellence. In order to substantiate that claim, we offer an outline of the concept of intangible asset as developed in the economic theory around the turn of the 21st century as well as of the methods for assessing intangibles relevant to excellence. We intend to demonstrate that the rearticulation of higher education quality as excellence, initiated by the Bologna process, will bring about new forms of exclusion that will expose universities and research institutions in relatively smaller societies to the risks of decapitalization and provincialization.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 36
  • Page Range: 141-164
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Bulgarian