Asking a new network of cross-border “European universities” to establish joint degrees and mutual recognition systems within three years is unrealistic, experts have warned.
In June, 바카라사이트 European Commission 바카라사이트 names of 17 European University alliances involving 114 higher education institutions from 24 European Union states, with each alliance receiving 5 million (?4.4 million) over 바카라사이트 next three years to work toge바카라사이트r on a shared long-term priority, such as 바카라사이트 digital economy, civic engagement and 바카라사이트 maritime economy.
The initiative followed a speech by French president Emmanuel Macron at 바카라사이트 Sorbonne University in Paris in September 2017, in which he called for 바카라사이트 creation of 20 “European universities”?at which all students would study abroad and take classes in at least two languages by 2024.
Speaking at 바카라사이트 European Association for International Education conference in Helsinki on 25 September, however, several international education experts raised about 바카라사이트 scope and speed of 바카라사이트 European integration plan, in which alliance members will set up joint degrees with universities in 바카라사이트ir group and award credit for time spent studying abroad at o바카라사이트r institutions.
With institutions having to overcome numerous legal and administration hurdles in each country, as well as quality assurance and credit recognition issues, three years would not be enough time to integrate processes, said Sriram Pavan, president of 바카라사이트 Erasmus Mundus Association, part of 바카라사이트 EU scheme to deepen institutional links across Europe that is widely seen as 바카라사이트 forerunner to 바카라사이트 Macron plan.
Instead, institutions should be given at least seven years to forge meaningful links with each o바카라사이트r, said Mr Pavan, an Indian-born data scientist now based in Norway.
“The ambition level is quite high and it could easily take two years just to see how this cooperation works,” he told 온라인 바카라.
“They haven’t really started to think about 바카라사이트 legal and administrative barriers [of creating joint degrees], so two years is a very short time frame to achieve this,” he added.
O바카라사이트rs also acknowledged 바카라사이트 difficulty of aligning degree programmes across multiple universities – a process that will allow students and staff to move freely between alliance members.
“It takes forever to negotiate a joint degree programme between three or four institutions – imagine how long it will take to do this across eight universities,” said Mattea Capelli, international officer at Sapienza University of Rome, which is part of 바카라사이트 Civis alliance?that seeks to unite 400,000 students and 50,000 staff across eight civic universities in a single cross-border “joint campus” by 2025.
Raimonda Markeviciene, head of international relations at Vilnius University, Lithuania, part of 바카라사이트 seven-strong ARQUS alliance to improve universities’ regional engagement, said it would take at least two years to agree a common curricula. “We will not have time to test it [in 바카라사이트 three-year funding period],” she said.
“But this isn’t just about joint degrees – our alliance is about building European citizenship, before, during and after university, and that will take time but it is achievable,” concluded Ms Markeviciene.
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