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From "Different but Equal" to "Equal but Different": Finnish AMKs in the Bologna Process
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Ahola, Sakari – Higher Education Policy, 2006
As different forms of short-cycle higher education have developed along with traditional university studies, they are often perceived as "different but equal". In Finland, with the introduction of the AMKs (polytechnics) in the early 1990s, this interpretation was clearly a part of the rhetoric of government presentation. "Equal but…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Program Effectiveness, Evaluation Criteria
Finnish Higher Education Policy and the Ongoing Bologna Process.
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Ahola, Sakari; Mesikammen, Jani – Higher Education in Europe, 2003
Describes the Bologna Process (a European-wide project to create a European Higher Education Area and harmonize degree structures), examining how educational policy has reached a stage for considering a European Higher Education Area that examines concepts of harmonization and the Bologna Process. Discusses future scenarios, highlighting why…
Descriptors: Educational Cooperation, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Globalization