Is European Quality Assurance Robust Enough to Recognise (Professional) Qualifications?
| Since the start of the Bologna process in 1999 Europe has become a major player in higher education. By re-casting higher education into a Bachelor-Master structure, by implementing and facilitating other objectives such as mobility and quality assurance, and by the use of various tools such as ECTS and the Diploma Supplement, Bologna has expanded the European dimension so much that the so called European Higher Education Area may now be said to have come into existence. The Europe of Bologna sits uneasily with the European Directive on the recognition of professional qualifications, which uses quite another methodology to recognise qualifications. This article investigates the robustness of the Bologna and Copenhagen approaches in comparison with the Directive. |
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