Editorial

I t was with great interest that I accepted an invitation from Professor George Stamelos, University of Patras to host, as an editor, a Special Issue on crises and transformations of European Higher Education systems. I was slightly puzzled, at the immediate willingness of esteemed colleagues from prestigious European Higher Education Institutions to contribute to this Special Issue. I came to conclude that the topic was one in which colleagues felt personally, as well as professionally involved. Crises and transformations, and the contestation that accompanies them, have touched us all.