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“All change please” Future perspectives for European cooperation in higher education

“All change please” Future perspectives for European cooperation in higher education. Adam Pokorny. Changing landscape. European Council (Lisbon) Intergovernmental (Bologna) Programmes (Socrates). European Council (Lisbon). Lisbon European Council, March 2000 Strategic goal:

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“All change please” Future perspectives for European cooperation in higher education

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  1. “All change please” Future perspectives for European cooperation in higher education Adam Pokorny

  2. Changing landscape • European Council (Lisbon) • Intergovernmental (Bologna) • Programmes (Socrates)

  3. European Council (Lisbon) Lisbon European Council, March 2000 Strategic goal: “…to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion” (para 5)

  4. European Council (Lisbon) Key actions for higher education: • Open method of coordination • Report on Concrete future objectives of the education system • Mobility Recommendation and Action Plan

  5. Intergovernmental (Bologna) • European Higher Education Area by 2010 • Three-step process covering several years: • Readability • Comparability • Compatibility

  6. Intergovernmental (Bologna) Salamanca - communication from universities “European higher education institutions recognise that their students need and demand qualifications which they can use effectively for the purpose of their studies and careers all over Europe. The institutions and their networks and organisations acknowledge their role and responsibility in this regard, and confirm their willingness to organise themselves accordingly within the framework of autonomy.”

  7. Intergovernmental (Bologna) • Looming issues • Transferability, particularly Bachelors  Masters • Quality assurance & accreditation • Institutionalization of the process • Academic autonomy, European diversity

  8. Programmes (Socrates) Objectives underlying Erasmus 1987, and just as valid today • Quality - learning from others • Expand and “multilateralize” student mobility • European Dimension Consolidated into Socrates 1996: • Institutionalization • “Virtual mobility”

  9. Programmes (Socrates) Effects and good practice • Institutional basis for student mobility • Academic recognition of study abroad periods • Establishment of support services for student mobility in the institutions • Integrated policy at university level • Multilateral forms of co-operation, networks

  10. Socrates/Erasmus - trends

  11. Socrates/Erasmus - trends

  12. Socrates/Erasmus - trends

  13. Socrates/Erasmus - trends

  14. Socrates/Erasmus - trends

  15. Programmes - Future • Stimulation of mobility • Mobility recommendation • Bologna and transferability • Strengthen curriculum development • Working group summer 2001 • External evaluation late 2001 • Links to Thematic Networks • Links to Bologna process

  16. Programmes - Future • Structure of Institutional Contract: • Decentralisation of organisation of mobility • Europe-wide debate • Key issues • European Dimension • Institutional commitment • Practicalities • Evolution towards Socrates 3

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