SOME CONFLICTS DURING THE PASSAGE FROM BACHELOR TO MASTER STUDIES EXPERIENCES AND PROSPECTS

With the Bologna process people graduated with a bachelor degree have the free choice to move to a master study course of a suitable topic. In this situation some problems could occur especially in the case of a change of the universities or higher education institutes. Provided that there are no language problems with a move to a foreign country we observed i) serious deficits of the supposed level for a master study, and ii) incompatibilities of the bachelor qualification and the wanted master study course. The named problems occur in Germany especially if bachelors graduated from special higher education institutes, the so called "Fachhochschulen", move to universities. Both the students as well as the universities are forced to provision for these problems to avoid long term studies. On the one hand the information base with meaningful module descriptions must be increased but on the other hand online offers to bridge the level gaps are necessary. Similar to other countries with long time experiences with the undergraduate and graduate studies entrance examination should be an issue. In the paper some suggestions to overcome the discussed difficulties will be considered.