文档介绍：Changes in the Relationships Between Higher Education and the World of Work on the Way Towards the European
Higher Education Area
Keynote speech at the EUA Conference “University and Society:
Engaging Stakeholders”, Marseille, 1-3 April 2004
by Ulrich Teichler
Centre for Research on
Higher Education and Work
University of Kassel, Germany
1 Introduction
The “Bologna Process” and the “European Higher Education Area” are “ess stories” in the setting of a political agenda. Everything which is considered desirable in higher education these days in Europe is likely to be considered even more desirable, if it went essfully through a process of canonization and eventually became a bullet point in the lists of themes addressed in the memoranda of the Bologna, Prague, Berlin, Bergen et cetera procession. And the production and dissemination of catch words and phrases, such as “employability” are among the instruments employed to turn the spot light of the European debates on higher education to the various themes put under the umbrella of the “Bologna Process” and the “European Higher Education Area”.
For persons not involved full-time in preaching the gospel of Bologna, it es more and more difficult to find out what the core is of this reform process in Europe, what the ponents are for the support of the core, and what all the other reforms are aimed for in higher education w