Final Report Pilot Project - Phase 1

2 + 33%2 + 27%5 only15%7%3 + 15 + 22%4 only7%8%4 + 246%3 + 23%4 + 12%3 onlyFig. 5Distribution of two-tier patternsEUPEN 2001 questionnaireThe «5 only» group contains 3 Austrian and 4 German universities.The «4+X» group —where «X» stands for 0 or 1 or 2— includesinstitutions from 10 countries. The «3+2» group, which is the mostnumerous, totalling 46 % of the sample, includes 7 Italian, 6 Polish and 3French institutions together with representatives from 9 other countries.The «3+1» group includes 3 Swedish institutions. On the basis of such aclassification it is possible to correlate some of the quantities anddistributions discussed here with the specific «two-tier» pattern.From our data we can extract an interesting feature, concerning therange of variation per grid item of the allocated credits. If we look atsystems, which are supposedly homogeneous, say the «3+2»institutions in IT or in PL; say the «5 only» institutions; etc. Indeed, inthe case of the «3+2» institutions the average variation in the first cycleis much lower than the 62 credits pertaining to the whole sample (seeabove): it is 15 credits in IT and 16 in PL, the largest variation neverexceeding 24 credits! In the «5 only» institutions the average variation is47 credits, the largest variations being in the items characterizing 2 (92credits), specialized & vocational (74), minor or optional (78).In Fig. 6 we show the core credit distribution of the first cycle for the«3+2» group, for the whole sample and for the «4+X» group. Amazingly209