We recently gave a presentation at the Bologna Process Researchers’ Conference on the Future of Higher Education in Bucharest (29-31 January). It discussed the extent to which the higher education staff and students in our project believed that social characteristics have an impact on what it means to be a student. We found considerable differences of opinion between the two groups (staff and students), as well as some interesting cross-national variation. You can read the latest draft of the paper (and the others that were given at the conference) here.