BERGEN MINISTERIALCONFERENCE – DECISIONS AND FURTHER PRIORITIESSome thoughts towards 2010
In the concluding part of the Bergen communiqué ministers have formulated some principles:
• basing European Higher Education Area on the principles of quality and transparency;
• cherishing Europe’s rich heritage and cultural diversity in contributing to a knowledge-based society.
• upholding the principle of public responsibility for higher education in the context of complex modern societies.
• ensuring that higher education institutions enjoy the necessary autonomy and sustainable funding to implement the agreed reforms,
• preparing the student for the labour market, for further competence building and for active citizenship of each of the EHEA three cycles,
• seing overarching framework for qualifications, the agreed set of European standards and guidelines for quality assurance and the recognition of degrees and periods of study as key characteristics of the structure of the EHEA.