In discussing European integration in higher education, one has to keep in mind that Europe is not a homogeneous region; still less is its education homogeneous, as the rationales behind the Bologna Declaration on the European space for higher education of 1999 make manifest. This implies that when analyzing the regionalization of higher education in Europe, one has to take account of several important issues, such as national and regional differences, diversity of languages, different educational traditions and systems, diversity of stakeholders, and the co-existence of universities and a strong non-university sector.
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de Wit, H. (2007). European Integration in Higher Education: The Bologna Process Towards a European Higher Education Area. In: Forest, J.J.F., Altbach, P.G. (eds) International Handbook of Higher Education. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4012-2_23
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