Universities
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University: Oxford on the polders
30 August 20112234 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Schengen: Back to the nation oasis
13 May 20112255 Die Presse Vienna -
Netherlands: University scandal
29 April 201136PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Education: Slovakia, land of doctorate tourism
25 March 20111PresseuropSME -
Italy: Universities in revolt
1 December 2010PresseuropLa Repubblica -
University: Education for all... but who pays?
15 November 2010893 Dagens Nyheter Stockholm -
United Kingdom: Student rage hits London
11 November 20101PresseuropThe Guardian -
Belgium: Catholic university drops the C word
7 October 2010PresseuropDe Standaard -
Universities: Estonians see spies everywhere
6 May 20101PresseuropEesti Päevaleht -
University: Schools feel cost of crisis
30 March 201043 Adevărul Bucharest -
France: Sarkozy loan to create French Ivy League
15 December 2009PresseuropLibération -
University: A taste of academia bolognaise
26 November 2009164 Presseurop -
Education: Anarchy in the uni
13 November 200949 Cafebabel.com Paris -
Austria: Looking for the student billion
6 November 2009PresseuropDie Presse -
Universities: Free education, a pipe dream?
30 October 2009353 Der Standard Vienna -
University: Austria, low-cost Mecca for German students
15 October 2009PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung -
University: Europe tops rankings
9 October 2009PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
University: English takes over Europe's lecture halls
16 September 2009383 El País Madrid -
Romania: New money spinner with non-EU students
26 August 2009PresseuropEvenimentul zilei -
Germany: The PhD giveaway
25 August 2009PresseuropFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung -
Belarus: A university in exile
31 July 20091 Cafebabel.com Paris
Easier and cheaper enrolment plus courses taught in English: for young Brits, studying in the Netherlands is the fashionable new trend for escaping the problems besetting universities back home. 
Denmark, which has caused a splash with its solo reinstatement of border controls, is leading the dismantling of the EU and the retreat to the nation state. Border controls back up, no foreign students, import restrictions and transit agreements. Sound good? 
There is nothing anodyne about the violent student protests in London, writes Dagens Nyheter, now that the controversy surrounding the hike in college fees has raised the question of the cost of university education for the masses. 
The education sector in Europe has been hard hit by cuts in budgets, personnel and investment. Some universities, e.g. in the UK, might even have to be closed down. And some leading institutions could soon lose their top international rankings.
European university reforms keep rocking the Continental campus. For several weeks now, German students have been objecting to the excessive workload and deplorable conditions at university. And the row over the merits and demerits of the “Bologna process” is raging all across the nation’s press. 
French university reforms saw the birth of revolts and street protests, but also the emergence of alternative higher education projects. Cafebabel reports from self-governing universities that aim to abolish hierachy and reiterate the much-attacked notion that education is an end in itself, and not just about getting a job. 
Over the last two weeks, Austrian students demanding a free education have taken control of Vienna's universities. But the question of higher education financing should not be a taboo subject, argues economist Andreas Schibany in Der Standard. 
The European Higher Education Area arrives is officially launched at the start of 2010, with the aim to harmonise studies across the European space. But in what language? With European universities offering more and more university degree programmes in English, their British counterparts are beginning to worry about losing their “competitive edge”, notes El País. 
After being closed down by the goverment in 2004, Minsk's European Humanities University is now based in Lithuania, with some help from the EU. Its aim is to educate the elite that will run the democratic Belarus of the future.