A GROUNDBREAKING programme of closer university integration on a European scale is getting under way.
The project to create a European Higher Education Area (EHEA) by 2010, is supported by 38 countries. They have agreed to institute such important features as a common pattern that distinguishes undergraduate and postgraduate courses (not the case at the moment); systems of credit and credit transfer; diploma supplements that make every qualification “readable” in other parts of the EHEA; a structure for quality assurance and such European features as joint degrees and integrated programmes of training and research.