“A meeting of more than 100 representatives from 49 student unions across Europe was held in Prague last month to draw up a declaration leading to a Ministerial Conference of the Bologna Process in April. The declaration provides an analysis of the progress made on Bologna over the last 10 years and calls for changes over the next decade to 2020. The key element of the declaration says that the vision of a European Higher Education Area that the Bologna process was intended to create is still a long way from being delivered. ‘Words have failed to be met by actions and there is an “à la carte” approach to the implementation of the reforms in many countries which means that certain action lines, specifically those relating to the social dimension and mobility, are being neglected,’ the European Students Union said in a statement following the meeting …” (more)
[University World News, 8 March]