Status of the Implementation Process

In an attempt to benchmark progress that has been made towards the goal of establishing a European Higher Education Area by 2010, WENR is providing updates on the structural, legislative and institutional changes that have been implemented by each of the signatory countries in its efforts to comply with the reforms called for in the Bologna Declaration.

The main resources used for this project are a combination of Bologna-commissioned papers and reports, and progress reports from the various national ministries of education. In this, the penultimate set of country updates, we are featuring higher-education profiles from Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands. In the next issue of WENR, we will complete the Bologna update series with reports from Austria, Italy, Portugal and Spain.

In the previous two issues of WENR we featured Bologna updates for the following countries: