Blocked by Education’s Boundaries
… “Students are caught in a war of brand loyalties,” she concluded. “They are forced to live in a globalized capitalist society, but their education has failed to comply.”
… North American universities could learn a lot from their European counterparts. By the end of the decade, students will be able to transfer university credits within 29 European countries, thanks to the Bologna Declaration, signed by ministers of education in 1999.This will allow young people to move freely among institutions of higher learning, receiving full credit for courses taken anywhere on the continent. The intent is to create a mobile, cosmopolitan workforce that is at home anywhere in Europe and equipped for a borderless world.
May 14th, 2006 at 2:36 pm
As a French student who has moved to complete his master in Denmark, there is no doubt that the growing range of possibilities offered to European students is highly appreciable. Obviously the experience is valuable from an education perspective as one has the possibility to fly to the universities that fit one’s interest best. But discovering cultural diversity and leaving among a multinational crowd of young people is also a personal enrichment that very few experiences can match.
So far, going back has never been an option for me.
I would even argue that the freedom the Bologna convention entails will contribute to profoundly alter European space beyond the nation states it has known for centuries.
August 22nd, 2008 at 11:19 pm
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