Bologna the role of institutions

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Bologna the role of institutions

• Roderick Floud
• President, London Metropolitan University
• Vice-President, European University Association

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The European University Association

• 700 individual members (UK largest number of any
  country)
• 35 Rectors conferences
• Board of 9 including Georg Winckler (Vienna) as
  President and Roderick Floud and Christina
  Ullenius (Karlstad) as Vice-Presidents
• Services to members
• Conferences
• Institutional evaluation programme
• Lobbying and information services
• Quality issues
• Research issues
• www.eua.be

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1999 Bologna Declaration

• establishing the European Higher Education Area
  by 2010
• 6 objectives
• System of easily readable and comparable degrees
• System with two main cycles (undergraduate/graduat
  e)
• System of credits (such as ECTS)
• Increased mobility by overcoming obstacles
• European co-operation in quality assurance
• European dimensions in higher education

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The Bologna Process Prague 2001

• Intergovernmental process Bologna Follow-Up
  Group, increasing role of European Commission
• Lifelong learning
• Involvement of students
• Enhancement of the international attractiveness
  and competitiveness of the EHEA

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The Bologna Process - Berlin

• Quality assurance at institutional, national and
  European level
• European Transfer and Accumulation System
• Qualifications frameworks
• Diploma Supplement
• Joint programmes
• New action lines
• Third cycle - Doctoral level qualifications
• Social dimension

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The Bologna process Bergen

• Addition of 5 countries
• Satisfactory progress in most countries
• Further emphasis on
• Doctoral programmes
• Lifelong learning
• Qualifications framework
• Quality assurance
• The social dimension

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Partnership - governments and universities

• The Bologna Follow-up Group
• European University Association (700 universities
  and 35 Rectors conferences)
• E4 ENQA, EUA, ESIB, EURASSHE
• Salamanca and Prague 2001
• Graz and Berlin 2003
• Glasgow and Bergen 2005
• ? And London 2007

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European response

• Major legislative changes across Europe
• Two cycle system
• Changes in 22 European countries
• Diploma Supplement
• Introduced in 20 countries
• ECTS
• Majority of countries introduced through
  legislation
• Quality assurance quality assurance agencies and
  qualifications frameworks
• Ratification of the Lisbon Convention

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From legislation to implementation

• The role of universities
• The costs of implementation
• Implementing mobility, credit transfer and
  accumulation
• Quality assurance and mutual recognition

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Related issues

• The Lisbon agenda and European Research Area
• Framework programme 7 and the European Research
  Council
• The European Institute of Technology
• GATS and the Services Directive

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Bergen to London the work programme

• Trends and stock-taking
• Doctoral programmes (EUA)
• Quality register (EUA and E4)
• Qualifications frameworks (national systems)
• The social dimension
• The external dimension
• Funding
• 2010 and after

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Further challenges

• Curriculum change
• Distance learning
• A unified HE system?
• Universities and research
• But
• Unprecedented and unexpected change
• Universities as engines of change