English
The article analyses the higher education public policy that seeks to increase relevance of the university education for the labour market. It tries to explain the rise of this policy in France and in the Czech Republic during the last 20 years. It distinguishes its three dimensions (prescriptive, competitive, discursive) in order to explore the links between the specificities of two national higher education systems, the European university policies and more general global trends. If the relevance policy has progressed in both countries, it has been based on different principles and triggered by divergent mechanisms in France and in the Czech Republic.
- international comparison
- France
- professionalisation of teaching
- education policy
- university
- Higher education
- Czech Republic
- Bologna process