Posts Tagged ‘Bologna Process’

Credit: Reuters Independence movements: it is hoped that strong university associations, free from government strictures, will look beyond national boundaries and towards greater continental integration While the Bologna Process of European integration in higher education may have its critics, it is hoped that a new European Union-funded project will launch Latin America down a similar [...]

As Europe’s Higher-Education Systems Try to Work in Concert, Notes of Discord Remain Photo credit: Mark Smith The U. of Bologna, in the city that gave its name to a project intended to encourage student mobility throughout Europe, receives large numbers of internationally mobile students. Written By Aisha Labi Nantes, France A complex effort to [...]

Tracking a Global Academic Revolution by Philip G. Altbach, Liz Reisberg and Laura E. Rumbley A global revolution has been taking place in higher education during the past half-century that is at least as dramatic as the one that happened when the German research model fundamentally changed the nature of the university worldwide in the [...]

Essay: “Latin America and the Caribbean: Trends in International Education:  Inter-American Studies as a Trend in International Education” BY ULLA KRIEBERNEGG, ROBERTA MAIERHOFER, AND MARGRET PURKARTHOFER In this short article, we would like to present as a best practice model the establishment of a Center for the Study of the Americas at the University of [...]

June 7, 2010 KANSAS CITY, MO. — In March, 11 years after its inception, the European Higher Education Area became an actual place, its 47 member nations having agreed, among other things, to develop comparable and easily transferable degrees — with a focus on learning outcomes — in a sweeping attempt to make higher education [...]