Reference Material

For an excellent backgrounder on exactly what the Bologna Accord is, take a look at the Council of Europe's Bologna for pedestrians page. For those of you who can't wait to jump in, reference material is listed below.

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Background

A collection of documents covering the major stages of the Bologna process are listed below, in date order:

1. Lisbon Convention, 1997 (pdf file, 44KB)
2. Sorbonne Joint Declaration, 1998 (pdf file, 22KB)
3. Bologna Declaration, 1999 (pdf file, 39KB)
4. Salamanca Convention, 2001 (pdf file, 20KB)
5. Student Gotebörg Declaration, 2001 (pdf file, 28KB)
6. Prague Communiqué, 2001 (pdf file, 76KB)
7. Berlin, Developments since Prague, 2003 (pdf file, 617KB)
8. Glasgow Declaration, strong universities for a strong Europe, 2005 (pdf file, 43KB)

Key Documents

• Bergen 2005 conference documents, 19-20 May 2005
• Trends IV report, 25 April 2005 (pdf file, 515KB)
• Summary of the Trends III report to investigate learning structures in European Higher Education (pdf file, 211KB)
• The full Trends III report (pdf file, 1.60MB)
• Action Plan for Mobility (pdf file, 46KB)
• From Prague to Berlin progress report I (pdf file, 47KB)
• From Prague to Berlin progress report II (pdf file, 129KB)
• Trade in Higher Education services: the implications of GATS, Dr Jane Knight, March 2002 (pdf file, 132KB)

Interesting Material

• Demographic Trends and Economic Growth: positioning companies for the long term, Christopher Smallwood (Makinson-Cowell), August 2003 (pdf file, 131KB)
• Global Education Digest 2005, UNESCO (pdf file, 1.35MB)
• Education at a Glance, OECD Indicators 2004 (pdf file, 5.72MB)
• European leglislation on higher education, collection of links to documents predominantly in English

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