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Bologna Declaration. Workshop: Boosting quality: International Credential Evaluation and Higher Education Quality Assessment in SSH (PHOENIX) Bishkek, 13-14 April 2006 Gunnar Vaht Estonian ENIC/NARIC. Bologna Declaration. Main objective Creation of an European Higher Education Area by 2010
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Bologna Declaration Workshop: Boosting quality: International Credential Evaluation and Higher Education Quality Assessment in SSH (PHOENIX) Bishkek, 13-14 April 2006 Gunnar Vaht Estonian ENIC/NARIC
Bologna Declaration • Main objective • Creation of an European Higher Education Area by 2010 • Raising the attractiveness and competitiveness of European HE • Not the creation of European higher education system • It is the creation to use the same or similar principles
Bologna Declaration • Main ways (I): • adoption of a system of easily readable and comparable degrees, also through the implementation of the Diploma Supplement • adoption of a system essentially based on two main cycles (undergraduate and graduate) • first cycle (bachelor-level) shall also be relevant to the European labor market
Bologna Declaration • Main ways (II): • establishment of a system of credits - such as in the ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) • promotion of mobility (students and teachers) • promotion of European cooperation in quality assurance • promotion of the necessary European dimensions in higher education (curricular development; inter-institutional cooperation; joint/integrated programmes; etc)
Main political documents after Bologna Declaration • Bergen Communiqué of Ministers (2005) • Berlin Communiqué of Ministers (2003) • Prague Communiqué of Ministers (2001) • Declarations by EUA • Declarations by ESIB • Statements by ENIC/NARIC on recognition issues in Bologna Process
Web sites • www.bologna-bergen2005.no • www.dfes.gov.uk/bologna • www.aic.lv/ace • www.enic-naric.net