Impacts of the Bologna process and of new public management on the academic surveying education in Austria
Mansberger, Reinfried, Harald Schuh and Gert Steinkellner
In June 1999 the Ministers of Education of 29 European countries signed the Bologna Declaration to create a European area for higher education in order to enhance the employability and mobility of students, researchers and teachers and to increase the international competitiveness of European higher education. In August 2002 a new Austrian university law was enacted to create the legal framework for the implementation of the Bologna Process and to establish principles of New Public Management at the universities. The mentioned activities at European and at national level had a huge impact on the organization and on educational issues of Austrian universities. The adoption of new curricula and organizational structures are results of these challenges. This paper focuses on the academic surveying and land management education in Austria: After a short overview of the new curricula and the new operational framework, the impacts, strengths and the weaknesses of the new system are outlined.
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