The legal impact of Bologna implementation: exploring criticisms and critiques of the Bologna process

Abstract

This paper reviews some of the critical assessments of the Bologna Process, notably by Neave and Amaral and Teichler. Other secondary material referred to includes Reinalda and Kulesza, Corbett and Greatrix. It is arguable that the Bologna Process is part of the generally over-bureaucratic and very costly context of European Union (EU) continent-wide activity, except one that (perhaps depressingly) involves a much larger range of nations than those which are formally members of the EU. I do here need to declare an interest in that I am what in the UK is call a ‘Eurosceptic’, perceiving the EU to be a grotesquely expensive, fraudulent and sclerotic entity that is in grave danger of its major original advantage (probably avoiding a third European civil war during the second half of the last century) being significantly outweighed by its growing disadvantage as now an over-interventionist and over-ambitious and under-competent example of ‘big government’.

Keywords:

• Bologna Process
• assessments
• progress
• criticisms
• critiques