Editorial: Competence-oriented study - didactic reform of higher education or Bologna-Rhetoric?

The planned and realized at least on a formal level standardization of qualifications in the EU was enforced in 2010. But the ongoing implementation problems and criticisms throw a bad light on the concept of the Bologna process. The key objectives - a faster career and the recognition of achievements over the country's borders - have not been achieved in Germany. An improvement of the reform takes place only on a contextual level, instead of taking into account the core aspect of the programmatic: the competence orientation