The 1999 Bologna Agreement aimed to create a European Higher Education Area by 2010, to support student mobility and employment. Its aim was to harmonise issues such as: quality assurance of higher education; credit transfer and accumulation; lifelong learning; doctoral qualifications and joint degrees. The implementation of the Bologna Agreement may have a number of strategic and policy implications for governing bodies.
Further information and a briefing guide to the Bologna Process has been produced by the UK Europe Unit.