GREAT CHANGES are afoot in European higher education, not least affecting engineering. By 2010, 4,000 European academic institutions will have standardised the way they are run to create a common European Higher Education Area - encouraging mobility with compatible courses and comparable qualifications. According to some pro-European higher education commentators, the UK is detached about the so-called Bologna Process, largely because it has been required to do very little, being overwhelmingly compliant with the reforms already. Meanwhile, much of Europe has had to apply the wrecking ball to venerable degree structures, introducing three-year Bachelor degrees in the Anglo-Saxon style.
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