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The Bologna Process in the former Soviet Union
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Kwiek, Marek “The Emergent European Educational Policies Under Scrutiny. The Bologna Process from a Central European Perspective" European Educational Research Journal. Vol. 3. No. 4, 2004, pp. 759-776.
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Among others, this article raises an extremely important issue, that of the unawareness of the potential or the consequences of the Bologna process by the very own mechanism that is supposed to promote it, that of the academic profession. Kwiek warns that if academics do not pursue the lead role in the convergence process, it could very likely end up as a feud of European bureaucracy as well as a theoretical exercise. He argues that taking into consideration the fact that the Bologna process pledges to make Europe the most competitive knowledge-based economy by 2010 the gap between the western countries must be dealt with suitable and soon. The prevailing message of this paper is that even though the Bologna process is being promoted a potentially strong educational response to globalization by the 40 signatories it seems more geared towards the EU 15. Kwiek acknowledges that it could be a very useful policy agenda but that it might be predominantly successful in Western Europe. Yet, he argues that it might fail in the transition countries for a variety of reasons, but especially because of the combination of the old and the new challenges faces simultaneously by their higher education systems and of the chronic under-funding of their public higher education systems.
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Eurasia foundation and USAID (2005) “Main Directions and Action Plan for Implementing the Bologna Process in Georgia Until 2010”.
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Re-emergence on the international arena, political, economic and social integration into the European structures had been a major goal of Georgia for the last decade. European integration in education and especially, in higher education is a historical opportunity for the country and concomitantly, it is a huge challenge: Participation in the Bologna Process enables us to implement the higher education reform, to join the common education area by introducing the European standards of quality assurance, to promote the European dimensions in higher education and eventually become a part of "Europe of Knowledge".
The aim of the document is to elaborate and promote the implementation of the strategy of activities at the national level for realizing the principles of the Bologna Process by stimulating the dialogue among the stakeholders, elaborating clear, flexible and sustainable national vision, facilitating formulation and realization of the strategy of activities and thus assuring the fully-fledged membership of the Georgian higher education system with the European higher education area.
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“Reconstructing the Doctorate in Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe” Conference at CEU Budapest, 4-5 November 2004.
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This a written account of the contributions and conclusions made at the conference on restructuring the PhD in the region. This occurred under the auspices of OSI and HESP and was comprised of 5 sessions which were transcribed to this report.
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Selected Bibliography on Higher Education and Internationalization
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This is a list of key articles that examine the issues of the Europeanization and Internationalization of Higher Education.
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