European Higher Education Seeks a Common Currency

But some professors oppose a plan to standardize degrees and course credits

By BURTON BOLLAG

Vienna

A quiet revolution is shaking the foundations of European higher education. Countries are abandoning their national degree systems -- mostly adopted in the 19th century and largely incompatible -- and introducing new ones based on a single...

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