tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893479142930851553.post1851681702304468505..comments2023-12-06T09:30:27.784+01:00Comments on Blog of eng. Xosé Carreira (since 2007): Bologna accord in engineeringXosé Manuel Carreirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11874312282479409720noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893479142930851553.post-57569087182280279472007-07-16T09:28:00.000+02:002007-07-16T09:28:00.000+02:00We all agree that mutual recognition of engineerin...We all agree that mutual recognition of engineering degrees among EU countries should be enforced. However recognition does not require homogeneous degrees. Different engineering degrees (with different durations) should be offered by universities provided that the needs are different depending on the European regions. <BR/><BR/>A very specialised BEng+MSc engineer could be very valuable in a capital city but a general integrated degree is better if you work in places that are not fully developed and you need to perform a wide variety of tasks.<BR/><BR/>I cannot be optimistic. In Italy, Portugal and Spain, the Bologna reform is going to be another useless change. The structure of the degrees does not constitute any major problem but the old fashioned methods (the Technical University of Madrid is a fine example of such an old methodology). These will remain because the professors will be exactly the same narrow minded people now and then.Xosé Manuel Carreirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11874312282479409720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893479142930851553.post-81362578872850690122007-07-15T01:41:00.000+02:002007-07-15T01:41:00.000+02:00This is an interesting topic, so I will go ahead a...This is an interesting topic, so I will go ahead and monopolize the comments' section once again. I think that the idea of unifying the degrees across Europe is definitely a sensible one, while the specifics of which model to choose are certainly arguable. However, in any case, I don't think that the new 4+2 years system will in practice make a big difference with respect to the current one. Probably, most Spanish future civil engineering students will end up doing bachelor's and master's, spending a similar amount of time in the degree as now. The master's will be equivalent to, for example, the current last two years of specialization in Madrid Technical University. On the other hand, most philologists will just do a bachelor's, which will be equivalent to their current 4 year degree. My impression, from my knowledge of the Spanish educative system, is that while regulations change often and easily, the education itself changes much more slowly. Think of how many different laws for primary and secondary education we have had over the past 20 years.David Gonzalez-Rodriguezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00051321908354883354noreply@blogger.com