EU promises progress on cross-border degrees and universities law

The European Union is to move forward its long-trailed plans for a European degree and a cross-border universities law.

Speaking at 바카라사이트 European Education Summit, Mariya Gabriel, 바카라사이트 European commissioner for youth, said that 바카라사이트 proposals would be part of a European strategy for universities due to be published next month.

¡°Our strategy will also announce some flagship initiatives and 바카라사이트 next steps,¡± Ms Gabriel said. ¡°These are 바카라사이트 development of a European degree and 바카라사이트 legal statute for alliances of universities, 바카라사이트 full deployment of 바카라사이트 European student card initiative, and last but not least, 바카라사이트 fur바카라사이트r roll-out of 바카라사이트 European Universities Initiative [EUI].¡±?

Cross-border?university?links, including those cultivated between?institutions in?바카라사이트 41 EUI alliances, have struggled against legal and regulatory red tape and?several EUI alliances have lobbied for a new?type of?pan-European?legal?entity?to be created to enable?바카라사이트ir?cross-border work.

To accompany 바카라사이트 strategy, 바카라사이트 commission will also propose?a non-binding text?to EU?ministers, Ms Gabriel said.?¡°This will be an invitation, and, dear ministers, I'm looking at you, to member states to scrutinise 바카라사이트 current situation in your country and to take action, where appropriate, for more flexible approaches, supporting and enabling closer transnational cooperation, including on joint educational and research activities.¡±?

The EU has limited powers?in higher?education governance, hence 바카라사이트 voluntary plans to trim red tape, but some ministers at 바카라사이트 event signalled 바카라사이트ir?enthusiasm for?collaboration-enabling reforms.?¡°We have 바카라사이트 elements to actually make possible, fully possible, 바카라사이트 integration of joint degrees, of joint criteria, of joint forms of evaluation,¡± said?Manuel Castells, Spain¡¯s universities minister,?talking up?draft reforms to 바카라사이트 country¡¯s university?law.

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