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Document 91997E003618

    WRITTEN QUESTION No. 3618/97 by Carmen DÍEZ DE RIVERA ICAZA to the Commission. Degree courses in music in universities

    OJ C 158, 25.5.1998, p. 165 (ES, DA, DE, EL, EN, FR, IT, NL, PT, FI, SV)

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    91997E3618

    WRITTEN QUESTION No. 3618/97 by Carmen DÍEZ DE RIVERA ICAZA to the Commission. Degree courses in music in universities

    Official Journal C 158 , 25/05/1998 P. 0165


    WRITTEN QUESTION P-3618/97 by Carmen Díez de Rivera Icaza (PSE) to the Commission (10 November 1997)

    Subject: Degree courses in music in universities

    The teaching of arts such as music remains outwith the university system in certain Member States.

    Can the Commission tell me whether it intends to push for the introduction of music as a university degree subject in the Member States?

    Answer given by Mrs Cresson on behalf of the Commission (11 December 1997)

    The Honourable Member will be aware that the Member States alone are reponsible for the structure and functioning of their education systems and that the Commission has no power to intervene to change them.

    Nevertheless, the Commission does have some scope for intervention in educational matters through encouraging cooperation between Member States, and this could apply to degree courses in music.

    More precisely, the Socrates/Erasmus programme now has a new initiative under the title 'thematic networks', one of which is an 'arts-music' network. This network consists of eleven Member States, plus Iceland, Norway and three countries of Central and Eastern Europe. In all of these countries, music is taught in higher education.

    The aim of these networks is to review the situation in the area of study in question, improve the level of teaching and learning, and identify and disseminate examples of good practice. In this context there is no doubt that, through cooperation between universities, the Socrates/Erasmus action could have a positive impact on Member States where music cannot as yet be studied at university level.

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