In recent years, organised student mobility within the European space has increasingly
caught the interest of scholarly researchers. As the focus of most research projects has been …

This paper addresses the issue of universities' engagement in peripheral regions, taking into
account both endogenous (university) and exogenous (regional peripherality) …

In this paper we study the effects of educational reforms on school attainment. We construct
a dataset of relevant reforms that occurred at the national level over the last century, and …

After the breakdown of socialism in Central and Eastern Europe, the role of education
systems in preparing students for the" real world" changed. Though young people were …

This article provides a panoramic view of research findings on social inequalities in access
to higher education in Croatia since the 1960s, guided by the question of what has changed …

Before exploring the selectivity of educational attainment in detail, this article extensively
describes the contours of educational systems in Central and Eastern European (CEE) …

While there is a rich literature on the school-to-work transition in developed countries, an
equally robust literature is lacking for post-communist countries. We analyse the patterns of …

The starting point of this study is the argument that not only rankings of higher education
institutions (HEIs) are inescapable, but so is the constant criticism to which they are …

European universities have come under reform pressures to make them instruments of
social and economic development, compromising their earlier status as socially buffered …

This paper aims at studying the dynamics of inequalities in access to higher education (HE)
both in a historical and a comparative perspective. It uses Bulgaria as a case study and …