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Bologna Secretariat
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.ehea.info
The European Higher Education
Area – A journey…
Viorel Proteasa
Member of the 2010 – 2012 Bologna Secretariat
Bologna Secretariat
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.ehea.info
Themes of the presentation
Introduction of the EHEA
From Bologna to Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve - highlights
Challenges within Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve Communiqué
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Bologna Secretariat
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.ehea.info
Bologna Process
• Bologna (1999)
• Prague (2001)
• Berlin (2003)
• Bergen (2005)
• London (2007)
• Leuven/Louvain-la Neuve
(2009)
• Bucharest (2012)
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Bologna Secretariat
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.ehea.info
BFUG Workplan
Working groups:
• International openness: The European Higher Education Area
in a Global Context
• Mobility
• Qualification frameworks
• Recognition
• Reporting on the implementation of the Bologna Process
• Social dimension
• Transparency tools
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Bologna Secretariat
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.ehea.info
BFUG Workplan
Networks:
• EHEA Information and Promotion Network
• Network of NQF (National Qualifications Framework)
Correspondents
• NESSIE (Network for Experts of Student Support in Europe)
• Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) network
Thematic sessions
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Bologna Secretariat
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.ehea.info
The Bologna Secretariat
Main role:
“...to provide neutral support to further the consolidation of
the European Higher Education Area under the exclusive
authority of the BFUG and its Chairs and Vice-Chairs.”
Bologna Process Secretariat’s Terms of Reference
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Bologna Secretariat
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.ehea.info
The Bologna Secretariat
Functions:
• Administrative and operational support for BFUG, its substructures (WG and networks) and the Board (minute-taking,
background documents drafting, assisting chairs in planning
the meeting, communication etc.);
• Create and maintain the EHEA permanent website and
electronic archives;
• Act as an internal and external contact point for the EHEA,
while ensuring external representation on behalf of the
Chairs or based on direct requests.
Bologna Process Secretariat’s Terms of Reference
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Bologna Secretariat
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.ehea.info
Ignition phase – Bologna, 1999
• Preamble (?): Sorbonne (1998), underpinning recognition,
cycles (two) and mobility;
• Bologna Declaration:
– Diploma Supplement;
– Two main cycles;
– System of (academic) credits;
– Mobility;
– European cooperation in quality assurance;
– Promotion of the European dimensions.
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Bologna Secretariat
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.ehea.info
Themes of the presentation
Introduction of the EHEA
From Bologna to Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve - highlights
Challenges within Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve Communiqué
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Bologna Secretariat
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.ehea.info
Bologna
Stocktaking
Report 2009
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Bologna Secretariat
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.ehea.info
The EHEA unfolded
Bologna action lines
EHEA Objectives/ HE
priorities
Pre-Leuven (as listed in the 2007-2009
Work Plan)
Post-Leuven (as listed in the 2009 – 2012 Work
Plan)
Mobility
Degree structure(?)
Employability
Recognition (?)
Qualifications frameworks (?)
Lifelong Learning
Quality Assurance(?)
Third cycle
Social dimension
Global dimension
Stocktaking
Beyond 2010 (?)
Social dimension: equitable access and completion
Lifelong Learning
Employability
Student centered learning and the teaching mission of
higher education
Education, research and innovation
International openness
Mobility
Data collection
Multidimensional transparency tools
Funding
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Bologna Secretariat
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.ehea.info
Mobility
• Achievements:
– Increased ERASMUS mobility and non-EHEA countries
mobility (EUROSTAT/ EUROSTUDENT);
– The 20% (2020) EHEA mobility benchmark;
– National strategies for mobility.
• Challenges:
- Drafting and adopting an EHEA strategy;
- Defining and agreeing upon the concept of „balanced
mobility”;
- Data collection (especially on credit mobility and free
movers)
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Employability
Achievements:
– a working definition of employability;
– an analysis of the importance of employability;
– an outline of the main challenges to improving employability;
– suggestions to policy makers, employers and HEI’s;
– Collection of good practices.
Challenges:
– ensuring that the value of first cycle/bachelors programmes are fully
understood by all stakeholders;
– increasing dialogue between higher education and employers;
– encouraging more work related placements which are sensitively
integrated into study programmes and workload;
– improving the provision of career and employment related information,
advice and guidance.
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Bologna Secretariat
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.ehea.info
Recognition
• Achievements:
– Ratification of the Lisbon Convention by all except four EHEA
countries;
– National legislation review;
– A (varied) collection of recognition practices.
• Challenges:
- Ensuring equal treatment in terms of recognition throughout
EHEA;
- Improving recognition with other parts of the world;
- Defining the links with quality assurance and qualifications
frameworks.
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Bologna Secretariat
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.ehea.info
Qualifications frameworks
• Achievements:
– The development of national qualifications frameworks;
– Self certification (in a few countries).
• Challenges:
- Making them work: better understanding of learning
outcomes, involvement of stakeholders and recognition by
employers, fine tuning the processes and structures;
- Link with life long learning, quality assurance and
recognition;
- Self certification.
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Bologna Secretariat
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.ehea.info
Quality Assurance
• Achievements:
– European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance;
– European Quality Assurance Register;
– European Quality Assurance Forum;
– National agencies and procedures.
• Challenges:
- EU Services Directive;
- Quality assurance for cross-border education and distance
learning;
- To renegotiate a definition of quality.
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Bologna Secretariat
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.ehea.info
Social Dimension
• Achievements:
– The National Action Plans (?);
– Research on measuring inequity (Equnet).
• Challenges:
- Defining under-represented groups and setting targets for
their inclusion in HE at each national level;
- National strategies for reaching the national targets;
- Collecting data on inequities.
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Bologna Secretariat
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.ehea.info
Inequality index in access to tertiary
education
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Bologna Secretariat
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.ehea.info
International Openess
• Achievements:
– Two editions of the Bologna Policy Forum (BPF);
– "The European Higher Education Area in a Global Setting”
Strategy;
– The Information and Promotion Network (IPN).
• Challenges:
- Striking a balance between promotion as a „ready cooked meal”
and true policy dialogue;
- Maintaining a balance between promotion/ marketing of the
EHEA and information provision;
- Having concrete and meaningful results of the Bologna Policy
Forum debates.
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Bologna Secretariat
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.ehea.info
Themes of the presentation
Introduction of the EHEA
From Bologna to Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve - highlights
Challenges within Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve
Communiqué
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Bologna Secretariat
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.ehea.info
Life Long Learning
• Challenges:
– Accessibility, quality of provision and transparency of
information;
– Flexible educational paths and recognition of prior
learning;
– Funding and institutional infrastructure;
– Link with qualifications frameworks.
• Widening participation and adapting to demographic trends
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Bologna Secretariat
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.ehea.info
Recognition of Prior Learning
• Achievements:
– Cooperation in the field (seminar, launching of the
network, the first meeting of the network);
– Public consultation on possible future action to support
the promotion and validation of non-formal and informal
learning (EC);
• Challenges:
- Accommodating the diversity of approaches with the must
to ensure consistency and transparency;
- Links with recognition and quality assurance.
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Bologna Secretariat
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.ehea.info
Student-centered learning and the
teaching mission of higher education
• Normative:
– Focus on the learner and innovative pedagogy;
– Flexible and more individually tailored education paths;
– Improvement of teaching quality.
• Challenges:
- To define student centered learning as policy subject;
- To stimulate both teachers and students for a shift in the
approach;
- To mobilize necessary resources.
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Bologna Secretariat
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Website: www.ehea.info
Education, research and innovation
• Challenges:
- Doctoral programmes;
- Inter-disciplinarity and inter-sectorality;
- Attractiveness of research careers for early stage
researchers.
The link with European Research Area?
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Bologna Secretariat
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Multidimensional transparency tools
• Challenges:
- To define their purpose;
- To explore their use by variegated users;
- To list the main categories;
- To assess their impact on diversity;
- To explore the link with quality assurance and recognition;
- To agree on a recommendation to the ministers.
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Funding
• Building on:
- Public good approach;
- Autonomy and academic freedom.
• Challenges:
- Public funding remains the main priority to guarantee
equitable access and further sustainable institutional
development;
- Diversifying funding sources and methods, while assuring
the HEIs respond to the current legitimate demands.
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E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.ehea.info
General Challenges
• Conveying the genuine Bologna Process message
• Transition to The European Higher Education Area
• Possible additional working methods:
- peer learning;
- couching/ job-shadowing;
- strengthening the link between National Bologna Experts and the
national BFUG representatives;
- setting up national BFUGs;
- thematic BFUG sessions.
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Bologna Secretariat
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.ehea.info
Thank you for your attention!
9-10 Septembrie 2010
Ligia DECA
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