Bologna Process has produced an insecure generation of students

Ten years ago the European education ministers initiated the Bologna Process, meant to standardise degrees and facilitate credit transfer across Europe. The Frankfurter Rundschau is unimpressed: "Only 15 percent of students go abroad during their bachelor degree. Within Germany, many universities are still clinging to their former 'Diplom' and 'Magister' degrees, trying simply to press old content into the new programmes. But this can't work, and as a result what students really deserve nowadays is pity. Those not among the 25 percent who drop out before getting their degree have to fight their way through an overloaded curriculum in which the knowledge they accumulate is only valid until their next exam, at the latest. And on top of that, their attention is rivetted on their studies. ... Social commitment? Forget it. A part-time job? Many students could use one, but when? Bologna has created a new generation. Neither curious nor mobile, today's students are simply insecure."

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