PLA on permeability between different categories of higher education - Draft programme

There are two major issues at stake for this PLA:

1. The transition from short cycle higher education to a the first cycle of higher education;
2. The transition from professionally oriented first cycle qualifications to the second cycle of higher education.

PLA on permeability between different categories of higher education - Background paper

Questions to be discussed during the PLA:

• What should be the basic charasteristics of the short cycle programme so they can be treated by all EHEA members as a HE qualifications?
• How short cycle qualifications should be treated in EHEA countries which do not comprise such qualifications (e.g. in terms of holders’ progression)?
• What factors are facilitating c.q; hindering recognition and articulation/permeability national and cross-border?  (on the basis of examples of good practices, stories, facts, ..)
• What are the rationales/driving factors for facilitating articulation?

PLA on permeability between different categories of higher education - Short cycle (higher) education in the EHEA