This article draws on data from six European countries (Denmark, England, Germany, Ireland, Poland and Spain) to explore the higher education timescapes inhabited by students. Despite arguments that degree-level study has become increasingly similar across Europe – because of global pressures and also specific initiatives such as the Bologna Process and the creation of a European Higher Education Area – it shows how such timescapes differed in important ways, largely by nation. These differences are then explained in terms of: the distinctive traditions of higher education still evident across the continent; the particular mechanisms through which degrees are funded; and the nature of recent national-level policy activity. The analysis thus speaks to debates about Europeanisation, as well as how we theorise the relationship between time and place.

本文借鉴了六个欧洲国家（丹麦，英国，德国，爱尔兰，波兰和西班牙）的数据，以探讨学生居住的高等教育时光。尽管有人争论说，由于全球压力以及诸如博洛尼亚进程和建立欧洲高等教育区之类的具体举措，整个欧洲的学位研究已变得越来越相似，但它表明这种时光在重要方面有很大的不同，主要是各国之间的差异。这些差异的解释如下：整个非洲大陆仍然有明显的高等教育传统；学位获得资助的具体机制；以及最近的国家级政策活动的性质。因此，该分析引发了有关欧洲化的辩论，以及我们如何理论化时间与地点之间的关系。