ERIC Number: EJ829754
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009-Apr
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ISSN: ISSN-0018-1560
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The Bologna Process and Its Impact on Higher Education at Russia's Margins: The Case of Kaliningrad
Ganzle, Stefan; Meister, Stefan; King, Conrad
Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, v57 n4 p533-547 Apr 2009
Embracing the Russian Federation since 2003, the Bologna process is no longer exclusively confined to western European countries. As early as 1999, Vladimir Putin declared the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, wedged between Lithuania and Poland, as a potential pilot region for intensified cooperation between Russia and the EU on a number of policy areas, including higher education. In this paper, we study whether the Bologna process has served to underpin these ambitions. With a view to the EU, we will ask to what extent the European Union has proffered a model or directly influenced the path for transformation of Kaliningrad's higher education system. We argue that a number of Kaliningrad-based actors in higher education have recognized the salience of European models and the need to work closely with partners from the EU, while Moscow only allows for marginal discretion in terms of Kaliningrad's higher educational policy.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Lithuania; Poland; Russia
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