Recent international developments on institutional cooperation have shown an emerging trend for joint degrees. The Bologna process is promoting the development of joint degrees between institutions from more than one country of the European Higher Education Area. The latest ministerial agreement, the Bergen Communiqué, calls for actions to support the recognition of such degrees. At the same time the European Union, with the Erasmus Mundus1 programme, is supporting a large number of European institutions in establishing and delivering joint master’s degrees that involve a minimum of three higher education institutions (HEIs) from at least three different member states. In addition, UK HEIs are increasingly engaging in joint degrees with international partners either as a result of individual institutional initiative or within national sponsored programmes, such as the BRiDGE2 programme that supports bilateral agreements between UK and Russian HEIs dual award joint degree programmes.
Development, delivery and management of joint degrees
The second colloquium on joint degrees - 14 March 2006
Programme (MS Word)
Keynote sessions by
Peter Williams, QAA - Powerpoint presentation
Nick Saunders, Eversheds LLP - Powerpoint presentation
Kathleen Kwan, Mills & Reeve LLP - Powerpoint presentation
Staffan Wahlén, Högskoleverket, Sweden - Powerpoint presentation
Reference paper (MS Word)
Joint degrees: quality assurance in international contexts
The first colloquium on joint degrees - 20 June 2005
1 The Erasmus Mundus is a programme supported by the European Commission that supports joint multilateral postgraduate study programmes.
2 BRiDGE is a DfES project that supports bilateral arrangements for joint degrees between British and Russian institutions that lead to dual awards
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