The Bologna Process Goes East? from “Third Countries” to Prioritizing Inter-regional Cooperation Between the ASEAN and EU

Dang, Que Anh

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“…Indeed, we noted that only a handful of solid scholarly work exists for illuminating the landscape of higher education regional cooperation in South-East Asia (e.g. Dang, 2012;Knight, 2012;Ratanawijitrasin, 2012). Turning to policy documents, we found a similar trend: official documents from the European side were abundant and easily accessible; there were fewer documents for South-East Asia and they were not readily available.…”

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“…Indeed, shortly after the UNESCO Bangkok Asia Pacific Bureau was established in 1961, we notice the creation of SEAMEO in 1965 for promoting regional cooperation in the areas of education, science and culture. Similarly, following the launch of ASEAN in 1967, we find the introduction of the ASEAN education ministerial meetings (ASED), but the forum quickly became dormant, leaving intergovernmental cooperation on policy issues for decades to SEAMEO (Dang, 2012). Two characteristics define South-East Asian higher education regionalism during this early period.…”

Section: South-east Asian Higher Education Regionalism: Institutionalmentioning

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Higher education regionalism in Europe and Southeast Asia: Comparing policy ideas

Chou

Ravinet

2017

Policy and Society

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Regional cooperation in the higher education policy sector has been on the rise throughout the last decades. In this article, we compare and analyse two instances of higher education regionalisms (i.e. political projects of higher education region creation) in Europe and South-East Asia from an ideational perspective. In so doing, we engage with and challenge the diffusion argument common in both European higher education studies ('Bologna Process export thesis') and new comparative regionalism. Using publicly accessible documents from regional bodies active in higher education policy coordination, and 53 semi-structured interviews with key policy actors involved in these developments, we identify the policy ideas of European and South-East Asian higher education regionalisms, and consider whether the extant models of regional cooperation and the knowledge discourse affected their evolution. Our findings indicate that the 'Bologna Process export thesis' and the diffusion assumptions of comparative regionalism are too simplistic and misleading. We conclude with suggestions for scholars interested in new comparative regionalism.

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Higher education regionalism in Europe and Southeast Asia: Comparing policy ideas

Chou

Ravinet

2017

Policy and Society

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“…The EHEA has been followed with great interest in other parts of the world. Examples include academic publishing in the United States (Adelman 2009;Gaston 2010), as well as policy initiatives in Asia (Dang 2015 and in the present volume). The development of qualifications frameworks was not a European invention, with Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa as pioneers, but the current interest in qualifications framework would most likely not have come about without the decision by EHEA Ministers to adopt an overarching framework and to develop national frameworks compatible with the QF-EHEA.…”

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Twenty Years of Bologna and a Decade of EHEA: What Is Next?

Bergan¹,

Deca²

2018

European Higher Education Area: The Impact of Past and Future Policies

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Considering or raising critical questions about the future of the European Higher Education Area is hardly an original endeavor. In one sense, considerations of the future have been present since the outset. In the Bologna Declaration (Bologna Process 1999), 1 the Ministers of the then 29 "Bologna countries" referred to consolidating a European area of higher education by the end of the "first decade of the third millennium" by coordinating their policies to reach specified objectives and indicated their intention to meet two years later to assess progress and "the new steps to be taken". The first new countries acceded to the Bologna Process already two years later, at the first Ministerial conference after the adoption of the Bologna Declaration (Bologna Process 2001), and in 2007 the Ministerial communiqué included a section on "Looking forward to 2010 and beyond" as well as a mandate to the BFUG to "consider further how the EHEA might develop after 2010 and to report back to the next ministerial meeting in 2009" (Bologna Process 2007a, paragraph 4).

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“…Attitudes in the US span from Cliff Adelman's enthusiastic assertion that "it is not so much when Bologna will arrive in the US as how" (Adelman 2009), 3 through Paul Gaston's description of the "Challenge of Bologna" (Gaston 2010), to quite hesitant reactions by several higher education leaders to the Lumina Foundation's attempt at introducing the concept of qualifications frameworks in the US. 4 Another set of non-EHEA countries interested by the EHEA is discussed by QueAnh Dang (2015). Dang describes how Asia addresses the "challenge of Bologna".…”

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The EHEA at the Cross-Roads. The Bologna Process and the Future of Higher Education [Overview Paper]

Bergan

2015

The European Higher Education Area

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The Bologna Process Goes East? from “Third Countries” to Prioritizing Inter-regional Cooperation Between the ASEAN and EU

Cited by 21 publications

References 29 publications

Higher education regionalism in Europe and Southeast Asia: Comparing policy ideas

Higher education regionalism in Europe and Southeast Asia: Comparing policy ideas

Twenty Years of Bologna and a Decade of EHEA: What Is Next?

The EHEA at the Cross-Roads. The Bologna Process and the Future of Higher Education [Overview Paper]

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