Recognition of qualifications is one of the key elements of the Bologna Process aiming to establish a European Higher Education Area by 2010. The fair recognition of qualifications is an individual right; it is also important to improving the academic mobility that is an essential goal of the Bologna Process. Put simply, a European Higher Education Area aiming at making it possible for learners and academic staff to move freely within the whole pan-European area to be established by 2010 is unthinkable without adequate provision for the fair recognition of qualifications.This publication focuses on two topics in particular. First, how qualifications that have not been earned through traditional study programmes at classical higher education institutions can be recognised, and second, recognition in a global context. In addition, this book gives an overview of the national action plans for recognition submitted by all the members of the Bologna Process prior to the London ministerial conference in May 2007.
Preface
A word from the editors
Implementation of the Lisbon Recognition Convention in the countries participating in the Bologna Process
Why is the recognition of prior experiential learning important and what are the national and institutional implications of this for lifelong learning?
Validation of non-formal and informal learning in higher education: the French framework
Recognising prior and experiential learning at the University of Tartu
Lifelong learning for all prior learning assessment and recognition
The European Higher Education Area in the global context: the case of recognition
Bologna and the world or Bologna versus the world?
Developing recognition policies in the European Higher Education Area: bringing trends and developments together
The renewed approach to the Diploma Supplement in the context of the developments of recent years
Appendix 1: The Diploma Supplement
Appendix 2: Explanatory Notes to the Diploma Supplement
Editors and contributors
