HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM IN EUROPE AN OVERVIEW

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HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM IN EUROPE AN OVERVIEW

• Sjur Bergan
• Head, Higher Education and Research Division
• Council of Europe

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EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION AREA

• Process toward 2010 (Bologna Process)
• Actors
• Ministries of Education (currently 40 countries)
• Higher education institutions
• Students
• International organizations

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MILESTONES

• 4 Ministerial meetings
• Sorbonne 1998
• Bologna 1999
• Praha 2001
• Berlin 2003
• Bergen 2005
• Academic Conventions
• Student Conventions

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MAIN POINTS BOLOGNA

• Increase attractiveness
• Increase transparency
• Increase mobility
• Facilitate recognition
• Adapt HE to labor market
• Reform degree system
• Role of HE in democratic societies, especially SE
  Europe

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MAIN POINTS PRAHA

• Democratic values
• Diversity of cultures and languages
• Diversity of higher education systems
• Higher education as a public good and public
  responsibility
• Student participation
• Lifelong learning
• Quality assurance

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MAIN POINTS BERLIN

• New countries
• Change access criteria
• Cultural Convention
• Requirement outline reform policies and
  commitment
• Stock taking
• Research
• Qualifications framework

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MAIN POINTS BERGEN?

• Social dimension
• Stocktaking
• Emphasis on implementation
• New areas for stocktaking
• New members? (5 applications)
• What about 2010?

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REQUIREMENTS NEW MEMBERS

• Party to European Cultural Convention
• Apply in writing and affirm commitment to Bologna
  goals
• National reports
• More information
• http//www.bologna-bergen2005.no/

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BOLOGNA 2010 WHERE ARE WE?

• Stocktaking
• Degree structure
• Quality assurance
• Recognition
• Social dimension
• Relations with the rest of the world
• Relationship HE policies/other areas of public
  policy
• Structure for 2010 and beyond?