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PRACTICAL INFORMATION  Implementation of the Bologna Declaration: The Netherlands and Greece by Robert Sedgwick In 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 have seen France, Germany, Italy and Austria have all introduced bachelor's and master's degree programs as an alternative to their traditional one-tiered systems of higher education. We will now take a close look at the Netherlands and Greece.  REGIONAL NEWS  Click below on the region of the country you wish to go.    Developing Countries Embrace Distance Education In Beijing, Jakarta and elsewhere in Asia large state-run distance-learning institutions have been established to help meet the burgeoning demand for higher education, which governments can no longer satisfy through traditional bricks-and-mortar schools. But proponents of distance learning are finding themselves faced with new challenges and obstacles. Two of the biggest problems remain: 1) how to introduce online technologies in places where few have access to computers or phones and 2) the difficulty of guaranteeing the quality of programs offered by distance-learning institutions operating both inside and outside their borders. See full story on ASIA-PACIFIC page  FEATURE  Students Voice Their Opinions on Bologna Declaration Just 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.