ABSTRACT
The chapter shows the dispositif of discipline and the neoliberal governance of students. It describes the gradual process of reconceptualizing the subject of higher education from “elites” into “masses”, and then into a hybrid governmentality in which the hierarchizing and controlling mechanisms of discipline have been combined with neoliberal regulations. The new ways of disciplining students, emerging along with the democratization of access to higher education, are an important issue from the perspective of most developed countries. The chapter directly refers to the discourse of international organizations (OECD, European Union) that had a significant impact on the Polish public debate and Polish public policy on higher education. The assumptions of the Bologna Process are one of the intensely discussed threads of the researched discourse. The global perspective is revealed in the analysis as one of the truths about university reform (reform as a platform for the global meeting the local), and also constitutes an important background for reflection on the concept of the experienced change.
