<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This article explores Bruno Amable’s Diversity of Capitalism approach to analyze educational systems in the European Union (EU28). The main goal is to identify the main clusters of educational systems with regard to their institutional characteristics. Second goal of the analysis is to evaluate the impact of several EU policies and initiatives on the institutional structure of European educational systems. This article identified six clusters in terms of general education and five clusters in terms of higher education systems. The clustering shows, that – with some exceptions (notably the United Kingdom and Ireland) – European education systems have similar structure to other institutional areas, in particular, it confirms the existence of post-communist (in terms of Farkas) or patchwork (in terms of Rapacki et al.) capitalism. The article shows, as well, that subsystem of higher education is much less diverse, what may have a significance for future discussions on the capitalisms in the EU. Results suggests also that there exist significant differences in performance between the clusters, something that may have a crucial importance for an educational policy.</p></abstract>

This article explores Bruno Amable’s Diversity of Capitalism approach to analyze educational systems in the European Union (EU28). The main goal is to identify the main clusters of educational systems with regard to their institutional characteristics. Second goal of the analysis is to evaluate the impact of several EU policies and initiatives on the institutional structure of European educational systems. This article identified six clusters in terms of general education and five clusters in terms of higher education systems. The clustering shows, that – with some exceptions (notably the United Kingdom and Ireland) – European education systems have similar structure to other institutional areas, in particular, it confirms the existence of post-communist (in terms of Farkas) or patchwork (in terms of Rapacki et al.) capitalism. The article shows, as well, that subsystem of higher education is much less diverse, what may have a significance for future discussions on the capitalisms in the EU. Results suggests also that there exist significant differences in performance between the clusters, something that may have a crucial importance for an educational policy.

Diversity of education systems in the European Union

Centre for Development of Economic Education

International Journal of Management and Economics

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This article explores Bruno Amable’s Diversity of Capitalism approach to analyze educational systems in the European Union (EU28). The main goal is to identify...

Diversity of education systems in the European Union

Article Category: Empirical Paper

Published Online: Sep 30, 2019

Page range: 230 - 249

Received: May 13, 2019

Accepted: Sep 10, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijme-2019-0030

Keywords
education systems, clustering, Diversity of Capitalism

© 2019 Andrzej Żurawski, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Diversity of education systems in the European Union

Article Category: Empirical Paper

Published Online: Sep 30, 2019

Page range: 230 - 249

Received: May 13, 2019

Accepted: Sep 10, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijme-2019-0030

Keywordseducation systems, clustering, Diversity of Capitalism

© 2019 Andrzej Żurawski, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
education systems, clustering, Diversity of Capitalism