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Parallel Universes and Common Themes: Reforms of Curricular Governance in The Bologna Context

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European Integration and the Governance of Higher Education and Research

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The reform of quality assurance systems has been one of the most important reform areas in the Bologna process and has in many countries been tied to the transition to a two-cycle structure of higher education programmes and degrees. While the “promotion of European co-operation in quality assurance with a view to developing comparable criteria and methodologies” (Bologna Declaration 1999) was an explicit aim of the Bologna process early on and in fact one of the six action lines agreed to in the Bologna Declaration, national reforms in this area were – as I will show in this chapter – driven by considerations other than creating comparable systems of quality assurance throughout Europe.

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Witte, J. (2009). Parallel Universes and Common Themes: Reforms of Curricular Governance in The Bologna Context. In: Amaral, A., Neave, G., Musselin, C., Maassen, P. (eds) European Integration and the Governance of Higher Education and Research. Higher Education Dynamics, vol 26. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9505-4_10

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