• State, higher education systems and higher education institutions
  • The regulation of higher education. From the stateto the market
  • Institutional autonomy
  • The political and pedagogical problems of massification
• Access policies
• Higher education, the labour market and economic development
• Quality assessment
• Governance of higher education institutions
• Knowledge production and higher education
• Comparative studies of higher education systems
• The economics of higher education
  • Funding of higher education
  • Public and private sectors of higher education

 

• Managerialism and professionalisation of management in higher education
• Markets and higher education
• Rankings of education institutions
• Improvement of quality evaluation systems
• Higher education institutions’ responses to European integration and globalisation
• Accreditation in the framework of quality assurance activities
• The international attractiveness of the academic workplace in Europe
• A funding formula in higher education
• Diversity and diversification in the Portuguese higher education system
• Indices of student satisfaction in Portuguese higher education institutions
• The emergence of women in decision-making position in higher education
• European higher education and the Bologna process