Education and Globalization in Europe: Current Trends and Future Developments

In the late 1960s the internationalisation of higher education was still a rather restricted phenomenon in Europe. Although, since those days, the transnationalisation of higher education has become one of the priorities in educational policy, in particular but not exclusively thanks to ERASMUS and other EC programs, internationalisation in the sense of institutional change is still in an initial phase. And the changes are taking place in an uneven and piecemeal way. Internationalisation of higher education in Europe will still have to overcome enormous obstacles in reaching a stage in which it is no longer an ad hoc phenomenon imposed upon higher education from the outside, but a natural and integral part of its mission, its plans, and its academic programs.