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media-reportings from the Bologna follow-up Conference in Bergen, Norway

someone | 21.05.2005 15:12 | Education | Globalisation

a short overview refering the media-reporting and further information about the arrestments yesterday

The media-reportments from the Bologna follow-up Conference with over 40 european education ministers was mostly close to uncritical but offical point of view propaganda represented by the involved governments. Beside the halftime of the Bologna process that should be finished in 2010 the ministers celebrated the five new member countries Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and the Ukraine. Furthermore the graduation should be more reglemented and unified in future.

Beside these beautiful words there was no place for serious and fundamental critics. The only students to be heard at the conference were semicritical but controversial official representatives from national or international student associations. (eg. the german fzs or the european esib). And those representatives are only advisary members and not allowed to vote.

The german "tagesschau" (serious and biggest tv newsmagazin) compared the protest on the privatisation of european higher education structure, resulting from the Bologna process to the critic of the official student unions refering to the implementation of the process.
 http://www.tagesschau.de/sendungen/0,1196,SPM7_OIT4359998,00.html

media-reportings from some norwegian newspapers
 http://www.ba.no/nyheter/article1593602.ece
 http://www.bt.no/lokalt/bergen/article.jhtml?articleID=369312
 http://www.bt.no/lokalt/bergen/article.jhtml?articleID=369274).

Meanwhile the accusation towards two arrested and by now released german activists is known. The norwegian police declared that they have tried to enter the hotel with forged identity-cards. This contradicts to statements of eye-witnesses. According to them the activists were arrested without any connection to the matter of fact.

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