This book shows that the introduction of the European Credit
Transfer System (ECTS) of credit points as a new accounting unit at
universities has led to increased bureaucracy and the
schoolmaster-style regimentation of Bachelor s and Master s
courses. It explains how, due to the pressure of having to plan
every single working hour of studying in advance, a Sudoku Effect
is created by the necessity to combine courses, exams and modules
in such a way that the points add up . An unintentional side effect
of the introduction of the ECTS, the Sudoku Effect has led to more
classroom style teaching, an inflation of exams and fewer choices
available to students. It has resulted in such complex and
contradictory guidelines for the planning of the curriculum that
the values attributed to the higher education reform can often only
be realised if the rules for Bachelor s and Master s programmes are
ignored, or at least stretched, in practice. The book describes how
the reaction to this situation is the continuous further refinement
of the complicated rules rather than their abolishment."
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