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Crossing the Border: Some Views, Largely Historical and Occasionally Heretical, on the Sudden Enthusiasm for an Exceedingly Ancient Practice

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Neave dissects the key issues that Cross-border higher education (CBHE) presents from an uncompromisingly historical perspective. CBHE is not new. It has been an integral part of higher learning in Europe for almost a thousand years. What has changed are the justificatory “universalisms” accompanying higher education’s mission, successively shaped by credo, by humanism and, over the past three decades, by globalization, now hoisted as the new trinity of technology, trans-national Corporatism and the market.

Central to what Neave terms Type 2 CBHE is its technological projection of courses and institutions across frontiers. The consequences it poses for the current authority of the nation-state, for re-shaping EU higher education strategy and for higher education’s status as a public good as opposed to the institutional raising of revenue are, he asserts, the essential issues CBHE poses today (137).

‘Now you pay

For what you used to get for free

In my hometown.’

Revisted: songs by Tom Lehrer, 1960.

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    Guy Neave

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  2. University of Lisbon , Lisbon, Portugal

    Cláudia S. Sarrico

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  4. A3ES, Lisbon, Portugal

    Alberto Amaral

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Neave, G. (2016). Crossing the Border: Some Views, Largely Historical and Occasionally Heretical, on the Sudden Enthusiasm for an Exceedingly Ancient Practice. In: Rosa, M., Sarrico, C., Tavares, O., Amaral, A. (eds) Cross-Border Higher Education and Quality Assurance. Issues in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59472-3_2

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