By Robert Sedgwick, Editor, WENR Across the Atlantic, unbeknownst to many Americans, higher education in Europe is undergoing a profound transformation. More and more countries are uprooting their traditional systems of education, which feature long degrees, in favor of a two-tiered model based on bachelor’s…
By Nick Clark, Assistant Editor, WENR Legal Framework The 1992 Law on Research and Higher Education promoted autonomy, academic freedom and integration of research and higher education in Lithuania. The Law on Higher Education, passed in 2000, built on those principles and established a binary…
By Robert Sedgwick, Editor WENR and Nick Clark, Assistant Editor WENR The Bologna Process is a complex and vast undertaking that involves 40 European countries and, within those countries, literally thousands of higher education institutions and millions of students. With the addition of Russia at…
By Nick Clark, Assistant Editor, WENR Legislative Framework There are two laws specific to higher education: the 1995 Act on Universities and Colleges and the 1986 Act on the Recognition of Study Programs at, and State Funding of, Private Higher Education Institutions. All institutions of…
By Nick Clark, Assistant Editor, WENR Legal Framework The Higher Education Development Act of 1986 includes provisions on the mission of the higher education system, appropriations and their allocation. The Universities Act of 1997 and Decree (1998) include provisions on the mission of the universities,…