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Encyclopedia > European Higher Education Area

The European Higher Education Area (EHEA) is the objective of the Bologna process - to create more comparable, compatible and coherent systems of higher education in Europe. The purpose of the Bologna process is to create the European higher education area by harmonising academic degree standards and quality assurance standards throughout Europe for each faculty and its development. ... The University of Cambridge is an institute of higher learning. ... Europe is conventionally considered one of the seven continents of Earth which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiographic one, leading to various perspectives about Europes borders. ...


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Recognition of titles is an important instrument to facilitate the free movement of students and of graduates in Europe. ... European credit transfer system (ECTS) is a method that is used to compare the marks (US: grade) given in education across European Union. ... The Diploma Supplement (DS) is a document attached to a higher education diploma aiming at improving international ‘transparency’ and at facilitating the academic and professional recognition of qualifications (diplomas, degrees, certificates etc. ... Homologation is a technical term, derived from the Greek homologos (ομόλογος) for agree, which is generally used in English to signify the granting of approval by an official authority. ...

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The Bologna Declaration of 19 June 1999
  • Higher Education in Europe.
  • The Bologna Declaration (PDF).

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EUROPA - Education and Training - Higher education (714 words)
Higher education plays a central role in the development of both human beings and modern societies as it enhances social, cultural and economic development, active citizenship and ethical values.
At European level, education in general and higher education in particular are not subjects of a « common European policy » : competence for the content and the organisation of studies remains at national level.
At the same time, the higher education sector and institutions are fully involved in the European initiatives presently on-going in the field of e-learning and in the area of Lifelong Learning.
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