General Summary/Overview of the conference "Building Bridges to Professional Higher Education", held in Otočec Slovenia between 16th and 17th October 2014.

1. Roadmap for successful harmonisation of
professional higher education in Europe
General Conference Report
Presenter Name Event Name
Anthony F. Camilleri
Knowledge Innovation Centre
Sevno
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17th October 2014

2. Professional
Higher Education
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3. Definition
a distinct form of Higher Education that offers a
particularly intense integration with the world of work
in all its aspects (including teaching, learning,
research and governance) and at all levels of the
overarching Qualifications Framework of the
European Higher Education Area. Its function is to
diversify learning opportunities, enhance
employability, offer qualifications and stimulate
innovation, for the benefit of learners and society.
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4. Where are we Going?
diverse
learning
opportunities
Multitude of learning pathways –
apprenticeships, learning by
doing, learning while working
enhanced
employability
giving students the ability to
develop a career
offering
qualifications
Offering skills
stimulating
innovation
Creating jobs
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5. Where are we coming from?
diverse
learning
opportunities
Multitude of learning pathways –
apprenticeships, learning by
doing, learning while working
enhanced
employability
giving students the ability to get
jobs
offering
qualifications
Offering skills
stimulating
innovation
Creating jobs
learning is
too abstract
graduates are
jobless
businesses
highlight skill-gaps
Weak, Jobless
economy
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6. Roadblocks
• Incoherent Strategies at national/regional
level
– PHE needs funding in correspondence to its
role
– PHE needs administrative/legal roadblocks to
cooperation with enterprise removed
– PHE needs to be freed to innovate and
research
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7. Roadblocks
• General collaboration is not providing
expected results
• Examples of best practice vary widely in
quality and scope
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8. More Questions than Answers?
• Respected role, mission and position of PHE within systems?
• Institutional vs. programmatic dimension? Field specifics?
• Variety of qualifications levels and approaches?
• Data and evidence?
• Objectives and performance indicators – teaching/learning,
• specifics of research and development?
• Integration of life-long learning?
• Flexibility and recognition of prior learning?
• Student centred learning – comprehension, students’ engagement and
implementation?
• Systematic interaction and collaboration with the world of work?
• Capacity for implementation of relevant tools at institutional level?
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9. Are we Building a Bridge to Nowhere?
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10. Will we follow the path?
diverse
learning
opportunities
Multitude of learning pathways –
apprenticeships, learning by
doing, learning while working
enhanced
employability
giving students the ability to get
jobs
offering
qualifications
Offering skills
stimulating
innovation
Creating jobs
learning is
too abstract
graduates are
jobless
businesses
highlight skill-gaps
Weak, Jobless
economy
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11. Our response must be:
FAST
ABLE TO KEEP UP WITH TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
HARDY
ABLE TO DEAL WITH UNEXPECTED ROADBLOCKS
PRECISE
LASER-FOCUSED ON OUR GOALS
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12. Some Ideas…
Clarify & respect
the role of PHE
especially vis-a-vis
other modes of education
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13. Some Ideas…
Point out inconsistencies and push for
coherent policymaking
Make Specific Demands
for resources necessary
to reach objectives
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14. Some Ideas…
Instrumentalise Collaboration
specific targets for academia-industry cooperation bodies
performance contracts all round
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15. Some Ideas…
Train Middle-Management
specifically targeted best-practice sharing
for designing teaching & learning cooperation
with world of work
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16. Some Ideas…
Create a Concept of PHE-Quality
first work this year
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stay tuned for PHExcel results
http://phexcel.eurashe.eu
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17. A Final Thought
All these ideas work better, when PHE acts
as a sector, and not just as a flavour.
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18. Acknowledgements
Conclusions/presentations
Anthony F. Camilleri - KIC Malta
Research Leaders
Raimund Hudak – DHBW
Marek Frankowicz – PWSZTAR
Project Leaders
Stefan Delplace
Marko Grdosic
HAPHE Consortium
• European Association of Institutions in Higher
Education (EURASHE)
• Cooperative State University Baden Wurttemberg
• Knowledge Innovation Centre
• Skupnost Višjih Strokovnih Šol
• Czech Association of Schools of Professional Higher
Education
• Tallinna Tehnikakõrgkool University of Applied
Science
• Vlaamse Hogescholenraad (Vlhora)
• Association of University Institutes of Technology
Directors
• Conselho Coordenador dos Institutos Superiores
Politécnicos
• Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa w
Tarnowie
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