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Over the last decades, we have been assisting to the emergence of a new global regulatory governance model in higher education (HE), more informed by soft law and modelling than by law-based command and control from the State. According to King (2009), soft law mechanisms consist of recommendations, codes of good practice, guidelines and similar models, carried out by international organizations (namely, inter-governmental and supranational bodies), from which universities can learn from others and yet be free to dissent (but this is not that easy, since they are ‘forced’ to provide good reasons for not following the norm) (King, 2009). Although different in nature, EUA may be seen as one of such organizations, as the results of its Institutional Evaluation Programme (IEP), even lacking legal force or status, seem to be increasingly influencing universities’ governance and management. |
