DANEURASHE Prague Castle 2004

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DAN-EURASHEPrague Castle 2004

• Welcome to the Conference
• New Public Management - Governance

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Bologna background

• Lisbon Convention 1997
• UNESCO/Council of Europe
• Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher
  Education in the European Region
• Sorbonne Declaration 1998
• Four minister of higher education
• The harmonisation of the architecture of the
  European Higher Education System

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Bologna Declaration 1999

• 29 ministers of higher education
• European Higher Education Area
• Easily readable and comparable degrees
• Two main cycles
• System of credits
• Mobility
• European co-operation in quality assurance
• Necessary European dimensions in HE

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Prague Communiqué 2001

• 32 ministers of higher education
• Bologna
• Lifelong learning
• Higher education institutions and students
• Attractiveness and competitiveness

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Berlin Communiqué 2003

• 40 ministers of higher education
• Bologna Prague
• Doctoral studies synergy EHEA and ERA
• Social dimension (transversal)
• Priorities 2003-2005
• Effective quality assurance systems
• Effective use of the two cycles system
• Recognition of degrees

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Bergen 2005

• Bologna Prague Berlin ???
• Ministers responsible for higher education in 40
  European countries meet in Bergen 19-20 May 2005
  to take stock of the progress of the Bologna
  Process since the Berlin meeting in September
  2003 and to set directions for the further
  development towards the European Higher Education
  Area to be realised by 2010
• www.bologna-bergen2005.no

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Other Players

• Council of Europe
• EU Commission I-II
• WTO/GATS
• OECD (IMF The World Bank)
• UNESCO
• ...

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Council of Europe

• Lisbon 2000
• Strategic goal 2010 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
• Barcelona 2002
• education and training systems in Europe "a world
  wide quality reference by 2010".

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EU Commission I

• Education training 2010 (11.11.2003)
• The success of the Lisbon strategy hinges on
  urgent reforms
• efforts are being made in all the European
  countries to adapt the education and training
  systems to the knowledge-driven society and
  economy, but the reforms undertaken are not up to
  the challenges and their current pace will not
  enable the Union to attain the objectives set...

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EU Commission II

• Education training 2010 (11.11.2003)
• A wake-up call is therefore essential at all
  levels if there is still to be a chance of making
  the Lisbon strategy a success
• Otherwise, the likelihood is that the gap between
  the Union and its main competitors will become
  even wider
• Concentration of reforms and investments

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Bologna - WTO GATS

• Bologna 1999
• Internationalisation
• Co-operation
• Politics and culture
• Welfare state
• Labour
• Education Good
• Finance?

• WTO GATS
• Globalisation
• Competition
• Economy
• World Market
• Neo-liberalism
• Education Commodity
• Quality?

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OECD - Economic Growth

• Society's most important investment is in the
  education of its people
• education is a priority for OECD
• Education Policy Challenges
• OECD Ministers meet in March 2004
• Closed-door ministerial meeting
• Raising performance levels
• Education for democratic citizenship
• Providing high-quality and effective teachers

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UNESCO

• UNESCOs mission is to
• Promote education as a fundamental right
• Improve the quality of education
• Stimulate experimentation, innovation and policy
  dialogue
• Education for all is important for three
  reasons.
• Education is a right
• Education enhances individual freedom
• Education yields important development benefits

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Management Needed!

• Higher Educational Institutions
• Delivering a Public Good and/or Selling Education
  as a Commodities at the market?
• Management and/or Leadership?
• Management and/or Governance?
• Students
• Internationalisation from below?
• Next DAN-EURASHE Conference
• September 27-28, 2004 (Danish)