Trends 2010: A decade of change in European Higher Education

Table of Contents:
1. A decade of change in European Higher Education - context setting.
1.1 The Brave New World of higher education: European responses to international trends.
1.2 The metamorphosis of European higher education.
1.3 The Bologna Process in the changing European political landscape.
1.4 Future challenges.
2. European Higher Education Institutions in the Bologna Decade.
2.1 The European Higher Education Area today.
2.2 Degree structures.
2.3 Building flexible curricula: tools for implementation in institutions.
2.4 European frameworks at the system level.
2.5 Responding to the challenges of lifelong learning, widening participation and access.
2.6 Internationalisation.
2.7 Conditions for proper institutional implementation: student services and internal quality.
2.8 Conclusions.
3. A Four-point Agenda for the European Higher Education Area.
3.1 European citizens for the 21st Century: lifelong access to learning.
3.2 A partnership to support quality, creativity and innovation.
3.3 A European higher education identity in the world.
3.4 The European Knowledge Area.
Appendix 1: Trends 2010 Questionaire.
Appendix 2: Country distribution of received questionnaires.
Appendix 3: National Rectors? Conference Questionnaire and the respondents.
Appendix 4: Trends 2010 Site Visits.
Appendix 5: Focus group and semi-structured interviews.