The Bologna process and the Portuguese universities

The universities in XXI Century have been suffered great changes because of different pressures. In one hand, the society and the market want more and different things of the university. On the other hand, the university lost State funding and has to find another financial alternatives. In this context, the Bologna process has like objective to create more competition between European Union education system and American education system. Some of Bologna process objectives are: mobility of students and teachers, transnationalization, the same credit system in the countries, etc. So, Bologna process has like main point an economical analysis of higher education and has like subsidiary social aspects like democratization of education. Many social movements as associations of students and teachers have asked for more discussions about the impact of Bologna process and they have been against the treatment of education as a market. In Portugal, the Bologna process was applied with not sufficient discussion with civil society, and the most part of students and teachers are against this process. This situation with the increase of fees in public universities has been created a great dissatisfaction in academic students. On the other hand, teachers say that they have so much work and not have time to do research. On this way, the effects of Bologna process began and the questions about it are so far to be answered.