The Bologna approval and potential consequences for planning education in Germany

Authors

  • Klaus R. Kunzmann Institut für Raum- und Landschaftsentwicklung Netzwerk Stadt und Landschaft ETH Zürich, CH-8093, Zürich Schweiz/Switzerland

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03183150

Keywords:

Bologna agreement, planning education, BA/MA courses, higher education and planning courses in Germany

Abstract

The decision of the European Union, to harmonize higher education in Europe and to do this on the basis of the Anglo-American system of BA/MA structures (the so-called Bologna process) has caused considerable turmoil at German universities. This has been particularly a concern of Technical Universities which were forced to abandon a long tradition of engineering degrees. With the reform, full time (five years) planning education in Germany, exclusively established at Technical Universities is under scrutiny. By now all German schools of planning have restructured their programmes and introduced BA/BSc and MAI MSc degrees, substituting the traditional Dipl. Ing. in planning. This transformation will have considerable repercussions on the established programmes, on teaching and on practice orientation, as well as on student admission and international mobility. The article raises the respective issues for the programmes and discusses the likely implications for planning schools.

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2008-11-30

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Vol. 66 No. 6 (2008)

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Kunzmann KR. The Bologna approval and potential consequences for planning education in Germany. RuR [Internet]. 2008 Nov. 30 [cited 2024 Apr. 25];66(6):498–507. Available from: https://rur.oekom.de/index.php/rur/article/view/1220
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