1. Approved seagoing service in the capacity of deck assistant on ships of 500 gross tonnage or more for not less than 6 months in the case of a graduate of a maritime college or academy, or one year in the case of a graduate of an approved course, including not less than six months in the capacity of a rating forming a part of a navigational watch.

4. Understands the thinking behind the proposal that the Millennium Round should be limited to three years, but considers that ultimately the quality of the outcome of the negotiations is more important than bringing them to a close on schedule;

This achievement included ‘core’ higher education goals such as curriculum development, development of comparable and compatible degrees organised in a three-cycle structure, quality assurance, recognition of foreign degrees, reform of higher education structures and establishments as well as development of skills profiles – although more so at the level of individual institutions than at the national policy level, where the duration and possibilities offered by SCMs and the inaccessibility of senior policy-level actors sometimes resulted in more indirect effects.

This achievement included ‘core’ higher education goals such as curriculum development, development of comparable and compatible degrees organised in a three-cycle structure, quality assurance, recognition of foreign degrees, reform of higher education structures and establishments as well as development of skills profiles – although more so at the level of individual institutions than at the national policy level, where the duration and possibilities offered by SCMs and the inaccessibility of senior policy-level actors sometimes resulted in more indirect effects.

a system of academic grades which are easy to read and compare, including the introduction of the diploma supplement (designed to improve international "transparency" and facilitate academic and professional recognition of qualifications); a system essentially based on two cycles: a first cycle geared to the employment market and lasting at least three years, and a second cycle (Master); a system of accumulation and transfer of cre ...[+++]dits (of the ECTS type already used successfully under Socrates-Erasmus); mobility of students, teachers and researchers; cooperation with regard to quality assurance; and lastly the European dimension of higher education.