Bologna Process can still be saved

Students disrupted the EU education ministers' celebrations of the 10th anniversary of the creation of the Bologna system on Thursday. The daily Die Presse says the harmonised European education system with its Bachelor degrees has its failings, but also its advantages: "The new 'bachelor' degree became a problem because the labour market has not accepted it, even though universities actually crammed too much material into them. As a consequence students justifiably feel they have lost their freedom with school-like courses of study. And worse still: international mobility has actually declined. ... But the Bologna Process shouldn't be pronounced defunct yet: the Bachelor degree can be improved in design, thus raising the national quotas for graduates - a goal that is common to all. And it's okay if not as many degrees as previously lead to a doctorate. Austria has long been internationally ridiculed for its addiction to academic titles. The new architecture for university studies can be saved and not everything about it is bad."

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