December 7, 2001

European Universities Must Adapt in an Era of Global Competition

By BERND WAECHTER

Earlier this year, education ministers from 32 European countries convened in Prague to evaluate the results of a remarkable change of direction. That change, which was begun by what Europeans call the Bologna Declaration, occurred two years ago in the Italian city of the same name. In Bologna, the ministers pledged to create, by 2010, a "European Higher Education Area," characterized by a unified higher-education system among their countries. The Prague meeting, the first in a series of

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