By Nick Clark, Assistant Editor, WENR Legislative Framework Flemish Community Since the constitutional reforms of 1989, education is no longer organized or subsidized by the state, but is administered by the education ministries of each of the three linguistic communities. Prior to the Bologna Declaration,…
By Nick Clark, Assistant Editor, WENR Legislative Framework Prior to the recent changes and reforms prompted by the signing of the Bologna Declaration, French higher education was largely governed by the 1968 Loi d’Orientation d’Education and the Savary Act of 1984, which encouraged greater institutional…
By Nick Clark, Assistant Editor, WENR Status of the Implementation Process In an attempt to benchmark progress that has been made towards the goal of establishing a European Higher Education Area by 2010, WENR is providing updates on the structural, legislative and institutional changes that…
By Nick Clark, Assistant Editor, WENR Legislative Framework German unification in 1990 ushered in an educational reform program aimed largely at superimposing the West German system of higher education over the eastern system. Some of the changes included updating technical standards, increasing enrollments and downsizing…
By Nick Clark, Assistant Editor, WENR CLICK TO READ OUT LATEST PROFILE ON EDUCATION IN THE NETHERLANDSLegislative Framework The Dutch higher education system is a binary system consisting of a university sector, which includes 14 universities, and the non-university sector known as hoger beroepsonderwijs (HBO)…