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A view from EURASHE on the Bologna Process. Bologna Process Information Seminar Vienna (Austria) 26 January 2006. The European Association of Institutions in Higher Education. Founded in Patras, Greece, 1990 More than 800 members in 26 countries in the EHEA
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A view from EURASHE on the Bologna Process Bologna Process Information Seminar Vienna (Austria) 26 January 2006
The European Association of Institutions in Higher Education • Founded in Patras, Greece, 1990 • More than 800 members in 26 countries in the EHEA • Members of EURASHE are National Associations of Colleges, Individual HEIs and professional HE associations • Professional Higher Education and Applied Research within the Bachelor-Masters structure.
Characteristics of Professional Higher Education • diversity of systems in Europe (Ba, Ma, PhD in coop. with univ) * binary system: professional HE outside universities (B, NL, SF, NO, DK, IRL, A, D) * unitary system: professional tracks/trainings in univ.(F, L, ES, IT …) blurring of systems through professional and academic ‘drifts’ of univ. & other HEIs.
The ‘Vilnius Statement’ of 29 April 2005:a message from EURASHE for BergenSix action lines • European Qualifications Fr: QA & LLL • Employability based on competence-building • Applied research in a regional setting • Wider accessibility to higher education • Social dimension of HE • Partnership with neighbouring countries & further in the world
EURASHE’s working agenda in the BP • Quality assurance: E4 Group and the QA Forum & Register • Links with Lisbon strategy (LLL) • Employability and Public Governance • The two-cyle system and short cycle HE , linked to the first cycle
Upcoming events in 2006 • Short-cycle HE seminar in Blois, 10 February 2006 • Annual conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia 27-28 April 2006 (‘New Masters’, LLL) • Regional conference on ‘Quality assurance on transnational education’, Kazakhstan, October 2006