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The Bologna Process in the German System of Higher Education: From Occupational Monopolies to the Global Struggle for Educational Prestige

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The Bologna Process is advancing at full speed, although the unintended effects it is causing are complained about everywhere. Yet, we do not witness unintended effects alone, but a fundamental societal change that embraces more than is widely recognised. This change is geared to replacing the occupational professional model of mediation between education and employment with the market model. Against the backdrop of the traditional German focus on occupations, that change appears as particularly radical.

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  1. Lehrstuhl für Soziologie II, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Lichtenhaidestr. 11, Bamberg, 96045, Germany

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münch, r. The Bologna Process in the German System of Higher Education: From Occupational Monopolies to the Global Struggle for Educational Prestige. Eur Polit Sci 12, 424–431 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1057/eps.2013.22

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