Bologna Process - Aligning Polities Outside The European Higher Education Area

Aligning Polities Outside The European Higher Education Area

See also: Tertiary education in Australia

Some polities outside the European Higher Education Area are very interested in the Bologna Process and are remodelling their own national systems taking into account the Bologna Process reforms. One such polity is Australia whose national government was concerned it could lose overseas fee-paying students to European universities if it did not adapt to the reforms of the Bologna Process. On 18 April 2007 the Australian Minister and the European Union Commissioner for Education signed a joint declaration to enhance the education links between the two federations and allow for a more rapid convergence of the two education systems. The text of the short declaration is found at http://www.delaus.ec.europa.eu/education/cooperation/JointDeclarationOnEducation.htm. From January 2013, Macquarie University will become the first Australian university to align its degree system with the Bologna Process.

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