EURASHE organised its 12th Annual Conference titled ‘Towards Coherence in Europe on Higher Education‘ in Galway (Ireland) on 16-17 May 2002. Underneath are further information on:
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Day 1 – Thursday 16 May 2002
14.00 – Opening of Conference by, Hon. Noel Treacy, T.D., Minister of State for Science & Technology
14.15 – Welcome to the Conference and to the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, by Director Gay J. Corr, President of EURASHE
14.30 – Keynote: Convergence, Diversity and Internationalisation in European Higher Education, Bernd Wächter, Director, Academic Cooperation Association, ACA, Belgium
15.05 – Keynote: From Prague to Berlin, the EU Contribution, Peter Van Der Hijden, Principal Administrator, European Commission, Directorate Education and Culture, Belgium
15.40 – Coffee Break
16.10 – The Flemish University-Hogeschool Associations, Luc Van de Velde, Secretary General, Vlaamse Hogescholen Raad, VLHORA, Belgium
16.40 – Standards of Degree’s in European Higher Education, Ignace Van Dingenen, Director of Education & Research, Erasmushogeschool, Belgium
17.10 – Concluding remarks, end of first Conference day
19.00 – Reception, Ardilaun House Hotel
20.00 – Gala Dinner, Ardilaun House Hotel
Day 2 – Friday 17 May 2002
09.30 – Challenges for a coherent European Higher Education Area, David Crosier, Programme Manager, European University Association, EUA, Belgium
10.00 – Trends of Coherence in European Quality Assurance, Christian Thune, Director of The Danish National Evaluation Institute, Chairman, European Network for Quality Assurancein Higher Education, ENQA
10.30 – Coffee Break
11.00 – The Region of the Future, Frank Ryan, Head/Regional Development, Industrial Development Authority, Ireland
11.30 – Foreign Direct Investment and Irish Education, Sean McDonagh, Director National Skills Initiative Unit, Former Director of Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland
12.00 – Lunch, Ardilaun House Hotel
14.00 – The position of the Colleges in the Higher Education Reform Programme in Hungary, with special regard to the Bologna Process
Arpad Balogh, President Confederation of Hungarian Conferences on Higher Education, Hungary
István Bilik, Secretary General, Confederation of Hungarian Conferences on Higher Education, Hungary
14.30 – Analysis of the Tertiary Short Cycle Education in Europe, Søren Nørgaard, Secretary General, European Association of Institutions in Higher Education, EURASHE, Belgium
Analysis of the Tertiary Short Cycle Education in Latvia, Baiba Brigmane, Rector of the Banking Institution of Higher Education, Riga, Latvia
15.00 – Coffee Break
15.30 – Presentation of the “EURASHE Declaration”, decided at the Plenary Meeting on 16 May 2002
15.45 – Round Table Discussion: Role and future policy of EURASHE and the Sector of Colleges/Polytechnics in the Bologna-Prague-Berlin process
Moderator: Lars Lynge Nielsen, Centre for Higher Institution, CVU FYN, Denmark
16.45 – Concluding remarks, end of Conference















Organisers

- Analysis of the Tertiary Short Cycle (TSC) Educations in Europe (0.1 MB)
- Associations in Flemish Higher Education - Text (34 KB)
- Convergence, Diversity and Innovation in European Higher Education (31 KB)
- European trends in Coherence in higher education (13 KB)
- Foreign Direct Investment and Irish Education (2.9 MB)
- Joint Degrees and the implementation of the Bachelor Master structure: A Case Study Brussels (0.2 MB)
- The Position of the Colleges in the Higher Education Reform Programme in Hungary with special regard to the Bologna Process (2.8 MB)
- Trends of coherence in European Quality Assurance (0.2 MB)