BMJ  2007;334:1246-1248 (16 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.39237.543889.AD

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European degrees

The course left out in the cold

St George's, University of London, London SW17 0RE

Education ministers hope that students and staff will be able to move freely between European universities by 2010. But medicine is being left behind, as Toby Reynolds explains

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European education ministers have big changes in mind for higher education. Their vision sees students moving between Europe's universities, taking courses that all count towards comparable qualifications, and, as a result, finding it easier to move around as employees. Governments hope that promoting this agenda will make their universities more attractive around the world and deliver a supply of high quality graduates to the workplace.

They signed up to the idea with a declaration in Bologna in 1999.¹ Since then, despite a low profile in some countries, the wheels of the Bologna process have been turning steadily, bringing closer the goal of a common European higher education area by 2010.

Medicine, however, seems to have been left behind. It is not that medical educators disagree with the Bologna process's main points, and indeed it would be hard to argue that more exchange within European institutions, more comparable qualifications, and overall . . . [Full text of this article]

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