#  Higher education reforms in the Western Balkans 

 



 From 2010 to 2012, Klemenčič was engaged in a research project “Differentiation, Equity, Productivity: the social and economic consequences of expanded and differentiated higher education systems - internationalisation perspective” (PI Professor Pavel Zgaga), which focused on higher education reforms in the Western Balkans. Through the analytical lens of diffusion theories, she has examined the impact of European policy initiatives and instruments on changes in higher education policies and institutional practices in Western Balkans. Through this theoretical lens, she has investigated - by comparing several countries in the region - questions of **institutional differentiation**, **institutional research**, **conditions of academic work, internationalisation, private-public higher education and student representation in university governance.**

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Relevant publications:

 2015 Student representation in higher education governance in the Western Balkans. In Higher Education in Russia and Beyond (HERB), pp. 6-7

 2014 Public-private dynamics in higher education in the Western Balkans: are governments levelling the playing field? European Education Volume 46 Number 3 (Fall 2014) (co-authored with Pavel Zgaga)

 2013 The effects of Europeanisation on institutional diversification in the Western Balkans. In ZGAGA, P., TEICHLER, U. and BRENNAN, J. (eds). The globalisation challenge for European Higher Education: Convergence and diversity, centres and peripheries (pp. 117-138), Bern: Peter Lang

 2013 Internationalisation at the European periphery and academics’ geographic preferences for partnership: focus on the Western Balkans. In Labi, A. (ed.) Weaving the future of global partnerships: A conversation starter for the EAIE 2013 Annual Conference (pp. 41-46). Amsterdam: European Association for International Education (co-authored with Pavel Zgaga)

 2013 Higher education in the Western Balkans: Reforms, developments, trends. Ljubljana: Centre for Educational Policy Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana. June 2013 (co-authored ZGAGA, P., KLEMENČIČ, M., KOMLJENOVIČ, J., MIKLAVIČ, K., REPAC, I., JAKAČIĆ, V.)