Robert Sedgwick, Editor, WENR Land Area: 194,913 square miles Capital: Madrid Administrative Divisions: 17 autonomous communities: Andalusia, Aragón, Asturias, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y León, Catalonia, Valencia, Extremadura, Galicia, La Rioja, Madrid, Murcia, Navarre and País Vasco (Basque Country). Official Languages:…
by Robert Sedgwick Editor, WENR VIEW UPCOMING WEBINAR ON BOLOGNA PROCESSUntil 1989, when the communist Eastern Bloc collapsed, the educational systems in former Czechoslovakia and Hungary were based largely on the Soviet model of higher education. Following independence, new laws were passed in both counties…
by Robert Sedgwick Editor, WENR VIEW UPCOMING WEBINAR ONr BOLOGNA PROCESSI n the past three issues of WENR we’ve presented four countries that are in the process of implementing significant educational reforms in line with the Bologna Declaration, which was signed in 1999. As we…
VIEW UPCOMING WEBINAR ON BOLOGNA PROCESSJ ust two years after the signing of the Bologna Declaration, European education officials, representing 30 countries, convened in Prague on May 19 to review the progress achieved so far, and to coordinate objectives for the coming years. The Bologna…
by Robert Sedgwick Editor, WENR VIEW UPCOMING WEBINAR ON BOLOGNA PROCESSU ntil quite recently, the Italian university system remained rigidly centralized. During the 1960s and 1970s, increased demand for university degrees brought about the massification of higher education in Italy, which in turn necessitated a…