Learning from the European Higher Education Area

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Learning from the European Higher Education Area

• Li, Shiaau- Rurng
• Doctoral student
• Department of Education
• National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

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1.The Bologna Declaration on the European space
for higher education

• The reform of the structure of higher education
  system.
• A binding commitment to an action program.
• The Bologna Declaration and global
  competitiveness.

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2.1 Organized follow-up structure and process

• Follow up the progress of Berlin, Ministers
  agreed on the following considerations,
  principals and priorities
• HE is a public good and a public responsibility.
• Making Europe the most competitive and dynamic
  knowledge-base economy in the world.
• Take note from the reports and message for the
  development of the Bologna Process.

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2.1 Organized follow-up structure and process

• Closer link between the HE and research systems.
• The fundamental role of the HE and students, the
  European University Association(EUA), the
  European Association for Institutions in Higher
  Education,(EURASHE) and the National Union of
  Students in Europe(ESIB).

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2.2 Follow-up conference main action

• Quality Assurance.
• Degree structure .
• Promotion of mobility .
• Establishment of a system of credits .
• Recognition of degrees.

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2.2 Follow-up conference main action

• Higher education institutions and students.
• Promotion of the European dimension in higher
  education.
• Promoting the attractiveness of the European
  Higher Education Area.
• Lifelong learning .

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3. Taiwans challenges of higher education and
strategies for the future

• The need for government funding.
• The capacities of the public institutions are too
  small.
• The internationalization of the institutions
  needs to be enhanced.
• The management of the higher education
  institutions needs improvement .

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3. Taiwans challenges of higher education and
strategies for the future

• The cooperation with the enterprise .
• The classification of higher education .
• The teaching quality needs to improve.

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4.The influence of European Higher Education
AreaWhat we can learn

• Learn how to support Teaching.
• Know the role of higher education institutions.
• Know the role of the students.
• Learn to enhance academic quality and the
  employability of the graduates..

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5. The Bologna Process and the shaping of the
future knowledge societies

• Prague, 2001commitment to establish the European
  Higher Education Area by 2010.
• Berlin, 2003set priorities and new objectives
  for the EHEA.
• Bergen, 2005 discuss changing relationship
  between knowledge and politics and the
  integration efforts of European Union.