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As our readers likely know, the Bologna Process was launched in 1999 with the objective of constructing the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) by 2010.  One increasingly important aspect of the evolution of the Bologna Process is its ‘external’ (aka ‘global’) dimension.  To cut a...

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Budapest-Vienna Declaration on the European Higher Education Area March 12, 2010 1.    We, the Ministers responsible for higher education in the countries participating in the Bologna Process, met in Budapest and Vienna on March 11 and 12, 2010 to launch the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), as envisaged in the Bologna Declaration...

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Deliberations and background documentation are blossoming this week given that the Bologna Ministerial Anniversary Conference 2010 will be held 11-12 March in Budapest and Vienna, and the Second Global Bologna Policy Forum will be held on 12 March in Vienna. As most of our readers know, the Bologna Process was...

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This week marks the launch of the EU’s EUROPE 2020: A European strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. As noted in EurActiv (‘Brussels unveils 2020 economic roadmap for Europe‘) on 3 March: The EU’s new strategy for sustainable growth and jobs, called ‘Europe 2020′, comes in the midst of the...

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Further to our recent entry ‘Euro-Asia university cooperation as a means to enrich academic quality‘, Prof. Dr. Supachai Yavaprabhas kindly alerted us to the existence of three insightful videos (see below) that address the issue of regionalism and higher education in Southeast Asia.  These videos were used as a resource...

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Over the last several months we’ve been experimenting with GlobalHigherEd’s Twitter service http://twitter.com/globalhighered.  Uncertainty at first has morphed into considerable happiness with the nature of this communications medium.  It is complimentary to the GlobalHigherEd weblog in that is serves as an archive of URLs (e.g., to key reports, news stories,...

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Editor’s note: The speech below was given by Alistair MacDonald (pictured to the right), Head of Delegation, European Union Delegation Manila. Mr. MacDonald kindly allowed us to reprint his speech below, which was delivered at the Best Practices in University Development through International Cooperation conference, Baguio City, Philippines, 2-4 February...

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Source: AHELO slideshow (see below) as translated by Wordle ...

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Editor’s note: the slideshow below about the Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO) initiative, and the associated press release, were kindly provided to GlobalHigherEd by Richard Yelland, Head of the Education Management and Infrastructure Division (Directorate for Education), OECD. Coverage of the AHELO launch yesterday, at the Council for...

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As noted in two earlier GlobalHigherEd entries (‘Bologna: beyond 2010 and over the Ocean – but where to? On new Bologna reports and C. Adelman’s last essay‘ by Pavel Zgaga; ‘Tuning USA’: reforming higher education in the US, Europe style‘ by Susan Robertson) the US-based Lumina Foundation is sponsoring an action-oriented project...

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