GERMANY: Nationwide Bologna protests

GERMANY: Nationwide Bologna protests - Michael Gardner 22 November 2009 University World News Issue: 102

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Students are calling for the new bachelor programmes, introduced in the context of the Bologna process, to be abandoned. They complain the courses are too rigid and crammed with contents.

Contrary to the Bologna objective of enhancing mobility, there are claims that present credit transfer regulations are making switching from course to course or university to university more difficult, let alone allowing students to go abroad to study. A further item on the student protest agenda was the introduction of tuition fees and, under the motto "Education is not for sale" they called for the fees to be scrapped altogether.
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