NUS responds to Parliamentary Inquiry on the Bologna Process
The NUS Education Campaign has submitted written evidence to the Education & Skills Select Committee Inquiry on the Bologna Process. You can now read our response.
The Bologna Process is an intergovernmental initiative which aims to create a European Higher Education Area (EHEA) by 2010 and to promote the European system of higher education worldwide. It now has 45 signatory countries and it is conducted outside the formal decision-making framework of the European Union. It was launched in 1999 when Ministers from 29 European countries, including the UK, met in Bologna and signed a declaration establishing what was necessary to create a EHEA by 2010.
The broad objectives of the Bologna Process are:
- to establish a common structure of higher education systems across Europe
- for this common structure to be based on two main cycles, undergraduate and graduate
- to remove the obstacles to student mobility across Europe
- to enhance the attractiveness of European higher education worldwide
2007 will be a big year for NUS and Europe. As well as our ongoing engagement with UK sector bodies, we will be hosting the 52nd Board Meeting of ESIB (the National Unions of Students in Europe) and NUS Vice-President (Education) Wes Streeting will be attending the June 2007 Ministerial Summit on the Bologna Process in London as part of the UK government’s delegation.
For more information, check out the useful websites below:
ESIB: www.esib.org - useful research publications on Bologna
Europe Unit: www.europeunit.ac.uk - representing the UK HE sector position on European matters
DfES Bologna Secretariat: http://www.dfes.gov.uk/bologna/ - UK government’s main site on Bologna
You can also e-mail Wes Streeting, VP Education, on wes.streeting@nus.org.uk
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