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Improving the Recognition of Qualifications in the Framework of the Bologna Process
Author(s) -
RAUHVARGERS ANDREJS
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
european journal of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.577
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1465-3435
pISSN - 0141-8211
DOI - 10.1111/j.1465-3435.2004.00187.x
Subject(s) - bologna process , autonomy , political science , bologna declaration , higher education , rhetoric , variety (cybernetics) , public administration , declaration , harm , economic justice , law , linguistics , philosophy , artificial intelligence , computer science
Whereas supra‐ national higher education policies in the past decade have been criticised for their possible harm to the national governments’ autonomy, the Bologna process — as an inter national agreement — has received much more positive reactions from national governments, at least in the rhetoric sense. Nevertheless, a variety of approaches of governments can be noted to do justice to the agreements made in the Bologna Declaration (1999). In this article, we shall try to explain the (gradual) change from Euroscepticism to acceptance of harmonisation attempts in higher education. We shall furthermore exemplify this change process by looking at developments in a number of European countries: UK, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Austria and Germany.