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The European Higher EducationDate: 2015-10-07; view: 407. Text B Exercise 3. Write a letter to your English friend about higher education in Russia.
The European Higher Education Area (EHEA) was launched along with the Bologna Process' decade anniversary, in March 2010, during the Budapest-Vienna Ministerial Conference. As the main objective of the Bologna [bə'lɔnjə] Process since its inception in 1999, the EHEA was meant to ensure more compatible and coherent systems of higher education in Europe. Between 1999 - 2010, all the efforts of the Bologna Process members were targeted to creating the European Higher Education Area, that became reality with the Budapest [,bu:də'pest] -Vienna [vɪ'enə] Declaration of March, 2010. In many respects, the Bologna Process has been revolutionary. The decision to engage in a voluntary process to create the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) was formalized in Bologna by 30 countries. It is now apparent that this was a unique undertaking as the process today includes no fewer than 47 participating countries. The Bergen ['bɜ:gən] Communiqué [kə'mju:nɪkeɪ], of 2005, underlined the importance of partnerships, including stakeholders – students, academic staff and employers, together with the further enhancing of research, especially with regard to the third cycle – doctoral programmes. Also, this Communiqué stressed the ministers' will to provide a more accessible higher education, together with an increased attractiveness of the EHEA to other parts of the world. With the London Communiqué, of 2007, the number of participating countries was enlarged to 46. This Communiqué focused on evaluating the progress achieved by that time, concerning mobility, degree structure, recognition, lifelong learning, quality assurance, social dimension. It also set the priorities for 2009, these being, mainly, mobility, social dimension, which was defined here for the first time, data collection, employability, EHEA in a global context. For 2010 and beyond, it was stressed that there is the need for further collaboration, seeing it as an opportunity to reformulate the visions and values. In the Leuven ['lə:v(ə)n] Communiqué of 2009, the main working areas for the next decade were set, with emphasis on: social dimension, lifelong learning, employability, student centred learning and the teaching mission of education, international openness, mobility, education, research & innovation, as well as data collection, funding of the HE and multidimensional transparency tools. These main working areas show a new orientation of the Bologna Process, towards a more in-depth approach of the reforms, thus ensuring the completion of the Bologna Process implementation. Another change, in terms of internal arrangements, referred to the Bologna Process Chairing procedure: from a previous situation where the Bologna Process had been chaired by the country holding the EU Presidency, to a situation according to which the Process is being chaired by two countries: both the country holding the EU Presidency and a non-EU country, named in alphabetical order, starting from July 1, 2010. The following Ministerial Conference took place in March 2010. It took place in Budapest-Vienna and it was an Anniversary Conference, celebrating a decade of the Bologna Process. With this occasion, there took place the official launching of the European Higher Education Area, which meant that, in terms of a common European framework for HE, the objective set in the Bologna Declaration was accomplished. The next milestone of the European Higher Education Area was marked with the Ministerial Conference, which took place in Bucharest [,bju:kə'rest], Romania [ru'meɪnɪə] in 2012 on 26–27 April. The Third Bologna Policy Forum was connected to this ministerial meeting, thus enabling further debate on the progress of the European Higher Education Area on the global scale.
Exercise 3. Find English Equivalents: начинать, десятилетняя годовщина, правительственная конференция, начало, совместимый, согласованный, нацеливать, во многих отношениях, вовлекать, добровольный процесс, создать, очевидно, уникальное начинание, подчеркнуть, участники, преподавательский состав и служащие, дальнейшее увеличение, третий цикл, доступный, привлекательность, участвующие страны, оценивать, признание, обучение в течение всей жизни, гарантия качества, социальные характеристики, данные, возможность занятости, будущее развитие и ценности, многомерный, прозрачность, инструменты, глубинный подход, завершение, выполнение, возглавлять, общая европейская структура высшего образования, завершать, этап.
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