Die Bologna Beschlüsse und die möglichen Konsequenzen für die Ausbildung von Raumplanern in Deutschland

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.

Keywords

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