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Organizations connected to the work of the higher education sector at national, regional, and international levels.
Around the world, the higher education enterprise can be understood to operate in an “ecosystem” of sorts, consisting not only of higher education institutions but also a wide range of networks, associations, and organizations connected to the work of the higher education sector at national, regional, and international levels. Several categories of relevant actors stand out in this discussion, including national-level agencies and associations, regional organizations, and higher education consortia and networks.
Europe’s landscape of such actors is extensive and diverse. This comes as a result of powerful forces of regional integration in the post-World War II era within the framework of what is today the European Union (EU) or the Nordic Council of Ministers, among other such...
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Rumbley, L.E., Ferencz, I. (2018). Higher Education Networks, Associations, and Organizations in Europe. In: Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9553-1_281-1
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