There are currently over 35 million students within Europe and yet, to date, we have no clear understanding of the extent to which conceptualisations of ‘the student’ are shared. A central aim of Constructing the Higher Education Student: Perspectives from across Europe is thus to investigate how the contemporary higher education student is conceptualised and the extent to which this differs both within nation-states and across them. This is significant in terms of implicit (and sometimes explicit) assumptions that are made about common understandings of ‘the student’ across Europe – underpinning, for example, initiatives to increase cross-border educational mobility and the wider development of a European Higher Education Area. It is also significant in relation to exploring the extent to which understandings are shared within a single nation and, particularly, the degree to which there is congruence between how students are conceptualised within policy texts and by policymakers, and the understandings of other key social actors such as the media, higher education staff and students themselves. The book explores whether nations should be understood as ‘coherent educational entities’ – or whether there is, instead, a high degree of contestation within nation-states about what it means to be a contemporary HE student.

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