Review article
LIKE SHIPS IN THE NIGHT: CROATIAN HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE FREEDOMS OF THE INTERNAL MARKET OF THE EU
Siniša Rodin
orcid.org/0009-0009-0727-9968
; Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The main proposition of this paper is that the Croatian legal framework for
higher education fails to meet the criteria of the internal market of the EU. In
the first part, the author draws a distinction between education as public good
and education as service, and explains how EU law affects the regulatory autonomy
of the Member States in the area of higher education. In the second
part, the author analyses hitherto identified barriers to the exercise of market
freedoms created by national legal frameworks of higher education. The third
part discusses the Croatian legal framework and tests it against EU standards.
The author concludes that deficiencies of Croatian higher education law are
partly caused by the ignorance of policy makers and partly by the structural
weakness of the negotiating process, where chapters are negotiated independently
from one another and focused on formal fulfilment of benchmarks.
Keywords
higher education; qualifications; services; establishment; free movement; European Union; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
71130
URI
Publication date:
21.6.2011.
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