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Just after the European Union had been established, policy and
issues in the field of higher education were not in the center
of discussions and were not considered as important by the six
countries of Western Europe. They were only concerned with the
economic issues. Only after the middle of seventies, the
European Union actively began to consider promoting mutual
collaboration in the field of education.It is at this time that
some relative resolutions passed through. But due to the fact
that each countrysees higher education as an absolute field for
sovereignty, the development of the wishes and actions for a
collaboration on the level of the European Union, has always
been more symbolic than realistic and has lacked a catalyzer for
providing enough dynamic impact for a concrete implementation.
Hereafter, there were four phases in the development of the
higher education policy of the European Union :(1)The first
phase (from 1976 to 1986);(2)The second phase (from 1986 to
1990);(3) The third phase (from 1990 to 1994);(4) The fourth
phase(from 1995 to 1999).The development of the highe education
policy of the European Union is trcnding towards a federalistic
approach and in fields where regional competencds are not
enough, it belongs to the central power (the European Union ) to
actively decide global measures. The ways the European Union
adopted to develop its higher education policy are as following:
the establishment of specialized main organizations and the
division of powers, the rational legal basis provided by the
Treaty, mutual reaction in participation chosen in the
realization of action programmes and measures and the common
establishment of country scale information networks for
providing the newest information or statistic in the field of
deucation. The purpose of this study is to discuss the process,
the present situation, the results and the future trends of the
development on the higher education policy of the European
Union. There are cix chapters:The first chapter is about the
background of devel opment on the higher education policy of
the european Union; The second chapter is about the process of
this development; The third chapter is about the content of the
higher education policy of the European Union; The fourth
chapter is about the external relations of the higher education
policy; The fifth chapter is about the future development of the
higher education policy; The last chapter is the conclusion.
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