Charting Academic Freedom in Europe

National Crisis ◽

The World ◽

Interdisciplinary Study

Abstract The paper argues that the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) is currently experiencing a crisis of academic freedom and discusses the need to chart a course out of this crisis. The paper claims that the crisis, with its two dimensions (intellectual and empiric), is specific to Europe/EHEA; it is not a global or national crisis, although there are challenges to academic freedom in all other parts of the world and also within individual national higher education systems in Europe. Efforts have been started recently to address key challenges to academic freedom in the EHEA and eventually plot a course out of this crisis. The paper outlines how a comparative and applied interdisciplinary study of these efforts helps reveal their nature and scope, identify the actors/stakeholders involved as well as those, astoundingly, absent; it also allows to discuss and assess early on the chances of success and identify challenges and gaps in these efforts. The paper concludes that charting a course for academic freedom at present in the EHEA is an intergovernmental process. Higher education institutions and academics are not part of this process.

El Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior y su sello de calidad.

Revista Española de Educación Comparada ◽

10.5944/reec.37.2021.27728 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 153

Author(s):

María Matarranz

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Quality Assurance ◽

Bologna Process ◽

Educational Quality ◽

The World ◽

The Bologna Process ◽

The Impact

Two decades have passed from the Sorbonne Declaration in 1999 to the present day, a period of time in which we have witnessed the great changes that have occurred in higher education systems in many countries of the world, specifically the countries belonging to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA).Four countries started by signing the 1999 Declaration, today there are already forty-eight countries involved in the EHEA.In this article, a tour of the milestones that have been shaping and kneading the EHEA is made, addressing the most relevant issues addressed in the different meetings of the ministers of higher education. Next, we will stop at one of the most relevant indicators of the EHEA: the quality assurance systems that, because of the Bologna Process, have been deployed both at the supranational and national levels. We will make an overview of the implementation of educational quality in the countries. Finally, we will reflect on the impact that the perspective of educational quality has had in the countries of the European Higher Education Area.

Emergency remote education and smart working at three European higher education institutions

International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies ◽

10.4018/ijwltt.287553 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 17 (6) ◽

pp. 0-0

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Digital Technology ◽

Online Courses ◽

Higher Education Institutions ◽

Remote Education ◽

Face To Face ◽

The World ◽

Administrative Procedures ◽

Smart Working

Due to the threat posed by COVID-19, many colleges and universities around the world opted to switch to online courses and smart working to keep their students, professors, and staff safe during the pandemic emergency. Face-to-face classes, including labs and workshops, have been canceled and substituted with online activities. New administrative procedures have also been established to support the emergency remote education. This article analyzes these changes in light of the experiences of three higher education institutions in different countries, namely Latvia, Poland, and Italy. From this analysis, some aspects have emerged that have stimulated a deeper reflection on the use of digital technology in higher education. .

SOCIETY INTEGRATION EDUCATION Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference ◽

INFLUENCE OF INTERNATIONALIZATION PROCESSES IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE

10.17770/sie2012vol1.63 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 437

Author(s):

Eglė Virgailaitė-Mečkauskaitė ◽

Velta Lubkina

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Labour Market ◽

Higher Education Policy ◽

Intercultural Competence ◽

Higher Education Institutions ◽

Academic Community ◽

European Convention ◽

University Graduates ◽

European Higher Education

<p>Since integration and globalization processes are accelerating in the world, the demand to internationalize education and studies increases as well as parameters of the activities of higher education institutions change. International competitive ability of European higher education area, international mobility and high level of university graduates’ employment as well as successful integration into international labour market are the main aims of Bologna process. Bologna declaration, various documents of conventions (European convention of higher education institutions, Salamanca) and communiqué documents (of Prague; Berlin; Bergen) related to the declaration devoted to the creation of common European Higher Education Area raise the necessity of higher education policy emphasizing internationalization, the conception of lifelong learning. The documents mentioned above emphasize the development of European dimensions and content internationalization in study programmes, training of a flexible, mobile, constantly improving and public active specialist who will integrate into the competitive labour market, mobility of the academic community and international cooperation. The development of intercultural competence becomes a more topical subject of the research taking globalization processes into consideration. That is why it is important to understand the influence of internationalization processes in the institution on the development of Master’s degree (MA) students’ intercultural competence through their experience gained in the study process. The aim of the research presented in this article is to discuss the influence of internationalization processes in the institution on the development of MA students’ intercultural competence. A scientific problem question raised in the research is how MA students telling their life story reveal the experience gained in the process of higher education internationalization which influenced the development of their intercultural competence.</p>

Handbook of Research on Trends in European Higher Education Convergence - Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development ◽

Modelling and Simulation of the Need for Harmonizing the European Higher Education Systems

10.4018/978-1-4666-5998-8.ch004 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 62-83 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Valentina Mihaela Ghinea

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Bologna Process ◽

World System ◽

Educational Systems ◽

Simulation Tool ◽

Negative Consequences ◽

The World ◽

The Bologna Process

The “Bologna process” has become a highly used idiom by all kinds of people who do not know what exactly it involves. They are unaware of its prerequisites and the correct way to measure its positive and/or negative consequences. Thus, this chapter explains the context of the Bologna reasoning as well as briefly expressing its content. It explores whether the harmonization of the European Educational Systems proposed and agreed on by nations is a fad or a real necessity, taking into consideration the actual evolution of the world. This is done by means of computerized simulation. The simulation tool is provided by TRUE-WORLD System Dynamics Software. In the end, some recommendations for a more efficient achievement of Bologna objectives are provided.

Academic Mobility as One of the Priority Areas in the Process of the Formation of the Common European Educational Space: the Ukrainian Experience of Cooperation

European Historical Studies ◽

10.17721/2524-048x.2017.08.53-73 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 53-73

Author(s):

Evgen Khan

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Bologna Process ◽

Great Influence ◽

Essential Element ◽

Academic Mobility ◽

The World ◽

The Common ◽

The Bologna Process

The integration processes, which take place in the world community in all spheres of the human activity have a great influence on the system of higher education. During this period, the common European education space is formed, which expressed particularly through harmonization of education standards, approaches, curricula, and specialties in different countries of the world. The open educational space provides for the increasing of student mobility and co-operation of university lecturers from different countries, which should help to improve the university graduates’ employment system and increase the status of these countries in the field of education. Academic mobility is one of the areas of the Bologna Process, which ensures the integrity of the European Higher Education Area and the European Research Area. At the same time the European space means not only the space of the states of the European Union. This space covers the territories of all member states of the Bologna Process. The course for the development of academic mobility is enshrined in almost all major documents governing the Bologna process. They note that the academic mobility of students, researchers and lecturers allows its participants to take advantage of European educational values (Prague Communiqué of Ministers of Education 2001), which forms the basis for the formation of the European Higher Education Area (Berlin Communiqué 2003), is an essential element of the Bologna process, which creates the new opportunities for personal growth, development of cooperation between people and institutions (London Communiqué 2007), etc. It is very important to find out how much our country is involved in the process of academic exchanges and international cooperation in the field of education, especially with European countries, as far as the international academic mobility is an important factor in the process of European integration.

ICT in Legal Education

German Law Journal ◽

10.1017/s2071832200001292 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 10 (6-7) ◽

pp. 669-716 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Antoinette J. Muntjewerff

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Legal Education ◽

Education Institution ◽

Education Systems ◽

Bologna Declaration ◽

Staff Members ◽

Internal Mobility ◽

European Higher Education

The Bologna Declaration (1999) started a process of reforming European higher education. The major aim of the declaration was to construct a single European Higher Education Area by 2010,“‥through increased compatibility and comparability of higher education systems in order to facilitate internal mobility for students, graduates and higher education institution staff members, but also to make European higher education more recognisable and attractive to students and scholars from outside Europe.”

The Effective Action of Theatre in the Educational Mapping of Linguistic and Intercultural Mediators

Scenario: A Journal for Performative Teaching, Learning, Research ◽

10.33178/scenario.6.2.8 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol VI (2) ◽

pp. 76-87 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

María Isabel Fernández García ◽

Mercedes Ariza ◽

Claudio Bendazzoli ◽

Maria Giovanna Biscu ◽

Yvonne Grimaldi

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Foreign Language ◽

Effective Action ◽

Educational Context ◽

Direct Link ◽

The World ◽

Intercultural Mediators ◽

The University

This paper is based on the University Theatre experience at the Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators (SSLMIT) of the University of Bologna (Forlì campus) over the last twenty years. A great number of trainee translators and interpreters has had the opportunity to explore the world of theatre in a foreign language, which can be referred to as TiLLiT (i.e. theatre in language and language in theatre) or stage-classroom. This activity has been carried out within a comprehensive educational context, enabling participants to acquire both general and specific competences, as suggested in the European Higher Education Area. Evidence of this can be found in the final dissertations that some students-actors wrote to complete their curriculum. Four dissertations in total will be considered to illustrate the effective action of theatre, which enables its main protagonists to establish a direct link between theoretical notions and experience.