Building the EHEA:
process and outcomes
BALANCE Project Seminar
Graz, Austria, 16 October 2008
Guy HAUG
The Bologna process
• A new stage in European HE
The Bologna process
• A new stage in European HE
• Bologna: why ?
The Bologna process
• A new stage in European HE
• Bologna: why ?
• Main characteristics of process
The Bologna process
• A new stage in European HE
• Bologna: why ?
• Main characteristics of process
• Action lines
The Bologna process
• A new stage in European HE
• Bologna: why ?
• Main characteristics of process
• Action lines
• From Bologna 1999 to London 2007
The Bologna process
• A new stage in European HE
• Bologna: why ?
• Main characteristics of process
• Action lines
• From Bologna 1999 to London 2007
• Enlargement: from 4 to 50 countries
The Bologna process
• From 2002, support from EU’s
Lisbon Strategy
The Bologna process
• From 2002, support from EU’s
Lisbon Strategy
• A dual agenda for universities:
- structural: Bologna
- policy: Lisboa
The Bologna process
• From 2002, support from EU’s
Lisbon Strategy
• A dual agenda for universities:
- structural: Bologna
- policy: Lisboa
• Common features of both processes
The Bologna process
• From 2002, support from EU’s
Lisbon Strategy
• A dual agenda for universities:
- structural: Bologna
- policy: Lisboa
• Common features of both processes
• Complementarity: QA, EHEA in world
How far from EHEA are we ?
• Current state of reforms:
- Ba, Ma, Do
How far from EHEA are we ?
• Current state of reforms:
- Ba, Ma, Do
- Qualifications frameworks
How far from EHEA are we ?
• Current state of reforms:
- Ba, Ma, Do
- Qualifications frameworks
- ECTS and Diploma Supplement
How far from EHEA are we ?
• Current state of reforms:
- Ba, Ma, Do
- Qualifications frameworks
- ECTS and Diploma Supplement
- QA
How far from EHEA are we ?
• Current state of reforms:
- Ba, Ma, Do
- Qualifications frameworks
- ECTS and Diploma Supplement
- QA
- Attractiveness
How far from EHEA are we ?
• Achievements and shortfalls
- uneven between lines, countries,
HEI, disciplines
How far from EHEA are we ?
• Achievements and shortfalls
- uneven between lines, countries,
HEI, disciplines
- an inner + an outer circle
How far from EHEA are we ?
• Achievements and shortfalls
- uneven between lines, countries,
HEI, disciplines
- an inner + an outer circle
- a number of incomplete/divergent reforms
How far from EHEA are we ?
• Achievements and shortfalls
- uneven between lines, countries,
HEI, disciplines
- an inner + an outer circle
- a number of incomplete/divergent reforms
- risk of dilution
How far from EHEA are we ?
• Achievements and shortfalls
- uneven between lines, countries,
HEI, disciplines
- an inner + an outer circle
- a number of incomplete/divergent reforms
- risk of dilution
- the London low tide of 2007
How far from EHEA are we ?
• Achievements and shortfalls
- uneven between lines, countries,
HEI, disciplines
- an inner + an outer circle
- a number of incomplete/divergent reforms
- risk of dilution
- the London low tide
- what engines for the years to come?
How far from EHEA are we ?
• External dimension= new priority
How far from EHEA are we ?
• External dimension= new priority
-
- first, eurocentrism
How far from EHEA are we ?
• External dimension= new priority
-
- at start, eurocentrism
- interest/adoption abroad
How far from EHEA are we ?
• External dimension= new priority
-
- first, eurocentrism
- interest/adoption abroad
- better partners for cooperation with
universities of other world regions
How far from EHEA are we ?
• External dimension= new priority
-
- first, eurocentrism
- interest/adoption abroad
- better partners for cooperation with
universities of other world regions
- but also more competition
How far from EHEA are we ?
• Main outcome: a real debate on
universities
and/in society
How far from EHEA are we ?
• Main outcome: a new debate on
universities
and/in society
• Major change in HE policies
- funding
- autonomy, governance
- links with society
How far from EHEA are we ?
• Main outcome: a new debate on
-
universities and/in society
• Major change in HE policies
- funding
- autonomy, governance
- links with society
• New EU initiatives:
- an EIT?
- «Lifelong Learning» programme
for mobility + cooperation (2006-12)
- a stronger Erasmus Mundus?
How far from EHEA are we ?
• Subsidiarity with cooperation:
-
is it enough ?
How far from EHEA are we ?
• Subsidiarity with cooperation:
-
is it enough ?
• Waking-up to competition from
new horizons
How far from EHEA are we ?
• Subsidiarity with cooperation:
-
is it enough?
• Waking-up to competition from
new horizons
• Common issues and challenges
between Europe and North America
How far from EHEA are we ?
• Subsidiarity with cooperation:
is it enough?
• Waking-up to competition from
new horizons
• Common issues and challenges
between Europe and North America
• Towards Bologna II from 2010:
more results, talking or burocracy?
-
Thank you !
[email protected]