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CONSTRUCTING NEW KNOWLEDGE
SPACES: THE CASE OF THE EUROPEAN
HIGHER EDUCATION AREA
Roger Dale
U of Bristol
Policy Futures in Higher
Education
CKS/WUN Horizon’s
Seminar Series 2006
The Lisbon Agenda
of the EU is for
Europe “to become
the most
competitive and
dynamic knowledgebased economy in
the world capable of
sustainable
economic growth
with more and better
jobs and greater
social cohesion”
EC 2000
Background to BP/EHEA
•Lifelong Learning
•Vocational
Education and
Training –common
standards agreed in
Copenhagen 2005
•EHEA
3 pronged strategy for Bologna
•Enhancing mobility of
labour
•Contributing to Europe’s
economic competitiveness
(the ‘master discourse’ of
Lisbon)
•Improving the
attractiveness and
international
competitiveness of
European higher education
45 Members, 600+ Universities
• Albania - Andorra - Armenia -Austria - Azerbaijan Belgium - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Bulgaria - Croatia Cyprus - Czech Republic - Denmark - Estonia - Finland France - Georgia - Germany - Greece - Holy See Hungary - Iceland - Ireland - Italy - Latvia - Lithuania Luxembourg - Malta - Moldova - Netherlands - Norway Poland - Portugal - FYR Macedonia - Romania - Russia Serbia and Montenegro - Slovakia - Slovenia - Spain Sweden - Switzerland - Turkey - Ukraine - UK
Key elements of Bologna
process: mobility
•Common degree architecture
(3+2+3)
•European Credit Transfer System
•European Qualifications
Framework
•‘Tuning’ (Generic and specific
competences)
•‘Euroquality labels’ (Engineering,
Chemistry)
Key elements of
Bologna process:
competitiveness
1. ‘Contribution of Universities to
Europe of Knowledge” (2003)
(benchmarking with US and
Japan,
especially on number of
science and technology graduates)
2. ‘Mobilising the Brainpower of
Europe’ (2005)
COMMISSION OF
THE EUROPEAN
COMMUNITIES
Brussels, 05.02.2003
COM(2003) 58 final
COMMUNICATION
FROM THE
COMMISSION
The role of the
universities in the
Europe of knowledge
COMMUNICATION FROM
THE COMMISSION
Mobilising the brainpower of
Europe: enabling universities
to make their full contribution
to the Lisbon Strategy
“The search for knowledge has
always been at the heart of the
European adventure.
It has helped to define our
identity and our values, and it is
the driving force behind
our future competitiveness”
Key elements of
Bologna process:
Attractiveness
•Erasmus Mundus
(European Fulbright)
•Marie Curie measures
(repatriation, etc)
•‘Passively’, by removing
the non-EU members from
the US sphere of influence
What does it mean?
•Construction of parallel HE sectors
(European/national)
•Extending competitiveness beyond
commercialisation, brain competition, etc, to
competition over the rules—QA, degree
architecture, mobility
•Discursive and Institutional thickening of
‘Europe’