Abstract
The successive declarations which punctuated the Bologna process since 1998 promote large ambitious goals – among them, competitiveness, quality, mobility, etc. – and rely on two main objectives to attain these goals. The first one has already been achieved in almost all signing countries and consists in the generalisation of a two-tier structure (bachelor and master) for all European curricula, most of them corresponding to a three year + two year cycle, even if variations are still to be found from one country to another or from one institutional sector to another in the same country (see, for instance, Witte 2006).
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I am grateful to J. Witte and K. Martens for their comments and suggestions on first versions of this text. It also benefited from the constructive discussions held at the Douro 6 Seminar.
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Musselin, C. (2009). The Side Effects of the Bologna Process on National Institutional Settings: The Case of France. 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_8
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