Bologna Seminar Unlocking Europe

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Bologna SeminarUnlocking Europes potential -
Contributing to a better worldImpact of
Globalisation

• Prof. dr. Martin Valcke
• http//allserv.ugent.be/mvalcke/CV/CVMVA.htm
• May 19-20 2008

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Structure

• Setting the scene
• Conceptual analysis
• Questioning Bologna
• Quality
• Conclusions

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Setting the scene

• Cases
• Master level students in Education get in touch
  with a collaborative reserach project, set up in
  Ecuador and want to take their research
  internship in Ecuador.
• Master students in Aquaculture at Ghent
  University want to study the mud crab farming in
  the Mekong Delta in Vietnam an dthis in the
  context of his Masters Thesis

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Setting the scene

• Cases
• A Student from Uganda with a Bachelor degree in
  Biology, gets access to University of York (UK)
  in view of getting a Masters degree in Education
  .After obtaining this Masters degree, she
  applies for a PhD degree in Education at Ghent
  University (Belgium).
• A Chinese student asks to take a Master level
  degree programme in Psychology on the base of her
  Bachelors level from Beijing Normal University

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Setting the scene

• Cases
• Three Flemish universities set up a
  inter-university cooperation with a university in
  Mozambique to foster training at masters level
  and PhD level of local staff .
• An Ecuadorian, Norvegian, Australian and Belgian
  University set up a joint-degree Masters
  programme that can be taken online. The
  participating universities agree on access
  criteria and credit transfer.

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Conceptual analysis

• Cases imply that
• International Higher Education space goes beyond
  European geographical space
• Knowledge base goes beyond European borders
• Research interests goes beyond European borders
• We already deal with extra-European mobility
• External international mobility knocks at
  European doors e.g. Grants from Chinese
  Scholarship Council

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Conceptual analysis

• Bologna developing countries
• Education is part of national developing
  countries policies
• Europe takes responsibility in fighting worldwide
  poverty and fosters world educational development
• Huge demand for HE
• Huge demand to develop research capacities

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Questioning Bologna

• Focus of HE within Europe is not limited to
  Europe - of non-European students/researchers
• What about Bologna restricted to Europe?
• Only priveledged non-European partners?
• Room for developing countries dimension? Social
  dimension?

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Quality

• Going beyond Europe Quality
• Bologna rich set of procedures, rules,
  experiences quality in HE

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Conclusions

• Current HE goes beyond Europe
• Bologna international trend
• Bologna results inspire new extra-European HE
  dimension
• Extra-European space can easily incorporate
  developing countries

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Bologna SeminarUnlocking Europes potential -
Contributing to a better worldImpact of
Globalisation

• Prof. dr. Martin Valcke
• http//allserv.ugent.be/mvalcke/CV/CVMVA.htm
• May 19-20 2008