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Bologna SeminarUnlocking Europe’s potential - Contributing to a
better worldImpact of Globalisation
Prof. dr. Martin Valckehttp://allserv.ugent.be/~mvalcke/CV/CVMVA.htm
May 19-20 2008
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Setting the scene
• Cases:– Master level students in Education get in touch with a
collaborative reserach project, set up in Ecuador and want to take their research internship in Ecuador.
– Master students in Aquaculture at Ghent University want to study the mud crab farming in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam an dthis in the context of his Masters Thesis
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Setting the scene
• Cases:– A Student from Uganda with a Bachelor degree in
Biology, gets access to University of York (UK) in view of getting a Masters degree in Education .After obtaining this Masters degree, she applies for a PhD degree in Education at Ghent University (Belgium).
– A Chinese student asks to take a Master level degree programme in Psychology on the base of her Bachelors level from Beijing Normal University
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Setting the scene
• Cases:– Three Flemish universities set up a inter-university
cooperation with a university in Mozambique to foster training at masters level and PhD level of local staff .
– An Ecuadorian, Norvegian, Australian and Belgian University set up a joint-degree Masters programme that can be taken online. The participating universities agree on access criteria and credit transfer.
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Conceptual analysis
• Cases imply that:– International Higher Education space goes beyond
European geographical space– Knowledge base goes beyond European borders– Research interests goes beyond European borders– We already deal with extra-European mobility– External international mobility knocks at European
doors; e.g. Grants from Chinese Scholarship Council
Conceptual analysis
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• Bologna ~ developing countries:– “Education” is part of national developing
countries policies– Europe takes responsibility in fighting worldwide
poverty and fosters world educational development– Huge demand for HE– Huge demand to develop research capacities
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Questioning Bologna
• Focus of HE within Europe is not limited to Europe - % of non-European students/researchers
• What about Bologna: restricted to Europe?
• Only priveledged non-European partners?
• Room for “developing countries dimension”? Social dimension?
Quality
• Going beyond Europe ~Quality
• Bologna = rich set of procedures, rules, experiences ~quality in HE
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Conclusions
• Current HE goes beyond Europe
• Bologna ~ international trend
• Bologna results inspire new extra-European HE dimension
• Extra-European space can easily incorporate developing countries
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