References -- 1. An Epistemic Governance of European Education -- Introduction -- Globalisation and Regimes of Knowledge -- Policy Networks and Travelling Politics of PISA -- Transnationalisation of Knowledge and Evidence-Based Research Policy -- The Mode 2 of Knowledge Production: a European Research Agenda -- The European University and the Knowledge Triangle -- The Foundations of the European Epistemic Governance -- Conclusion -- References -- 2. The Politics of Standards and Quality -- The Politics of Standards: Objects, Metrics and Expertise -- The Knowledge Economy and the European space of Statistics -- Governing by Numbers: New Political Technologies -- Standards, Quality and Tools in Higher Education -- From Standardization to Normalization: the Fabrication of a new Agency -- Conclusion -- 3. “What works?” or the Shaping of the European Politics of Evidence -- Introduction -- The Social Epistemology of the Politics of Evidence -- Policy Travelling from Health to Education -- Political Technologies of the Welfare State -- The Great Debate and Controversy in Education -- The Globalization of Evidence-Based Policy Making -- Conclusion -- References -- 4. The Multiple Worlds of Expertise -- Introduction -- Understanding the Politics of European Expertise -- Expertise and Policy Learning in Interactive Contexts -- Reflexive Learning and Story Telling -- Epistemic Community or Expertise in the Mode 2 -- Social Interactions and Instrumental Politics -- Learning in the Shadow of Hierarchy -- Conclusion -- References -- 5. The New Spirit of Managerialism -- Introduction -- The New Spirit of Global Academic Capitalism -- The Criticism and Trials against the Academic Profession -- Trajectories and Trends of New Public Management in Higher Education -- The Trials of Managerialism and Professionalism -- The Knowledge-based University: a New Academic Regime? -- Conventions at Work for a new Homo Academicus -- Conclusion -- 6. The Making of a New Homo Academicus? -- Introduction -- The Weakening of the Academic World’s Defences -- The Academic Institution’s New Discourses of Truth -- New Spaces at the Boundaries of Academia -- Principles of Justification and Potentialities for Criticism -- Trials and Criticism of Managerialism -- Agencies of the Self and Academic Subjectivities -- Conclusion -- References -- Conclusion. .