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The article analyses some positive and negative aspects of the Bologna Process, while paying special attention to the notion of happiness among students. On the basis of a quantitative analysis of contents of ten documents that were issued after conferences at the Ministry of Higher Education in the period between 2001 and 2020, the author concluded that the Bologna Reform does not pay explicit and direct attention to the notion of happiness and well-being of students. On top of that, notions of happiness, happiness of students, and well-being of students are not mentioned at all in those documents. Institutions of higher education are required, of course, to provide students with an opportunity to acquire professional competencies and qualifications that are valued at the job market. However, they should also provide students with an opportunity to develop as persons and to research and evaluate determinants of a happy, meaningful, and good life. In that sense, the article elaborates on some of the key determinants of human happiness that are underrepresented in the European reform of higher education at the expense of the personal development of students. The article is divided into four parts. The first part explains the Bologna Declaration and some of the aims of the Bologna Process. The second part analyses positive and negative aspects of the Bologna Process. The third part carries out a quantitative analysis of contents of ten documents that were issued after conferences at the Ministry of Higher Education and studies the notions of happiness and well-beings, while the fourth part develops some solutions on the basis of the ethical theory of objective truth. These solutions encourage paying more attention to happiness and well-being of students within higher education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The author deals with the problem of adjustment to the Bologna process using the philosophical-political distinctions between the open and the guided intertraditional exchange, and the utopian and the piecemeal social engineering. In his opinion, the process might be perceived as a sort of cultural imperialism that need not be disastrous for its victims. The reform should create the conditions for the organization of of serious multidisciplinal studies at the university level (European studies, American studies, gender studies, peace studies etc.). Should the changes at the University of Zagreb be implemented systematically, though prudently, the results could be positive. However, the author warns that the role of tradition should not be underestimated nor the possibility of serious quandaries in the implementation of the reform of higher education excluded, even if the changes are introduced gradually. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]