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BM 64 - ESU Condemns the commodification of medical studies in France

Fri 03 May 2013

ESU expresses its fears after the Portuguese University Fernando Pessoa (UFP) opened a branch in Toulon (France). UFP claims to have the right to provide healthcare education such as dentistry, speech therapy, physiotherapy and pharmacy studies to students in France.

 
BM 64 - Keeping the Dutch government from financial cuts to grants and changes to public transport

Fri 03 May 2013

ESU calls upon the Dutch government not to persist with its proposed abolishment of the grant system and the changes the government wishes to make on the regulations concerning public transport for students. Laying the burden upon students is not a way to fill up budget deficits. The accessibility of higher education will be in danger if these plans are carried through.

 
BM 64 - Pedagogy in higher education from a student’s perspective

Fri 03 May 2013

Higher education should convey critical thinking, self-reflection and nuanced analytic skills to the student. Teachers applying pedagogy designed for higher education institutions requirements are a prerequisite for the development of these learning outcomes.

 
BM 64 - ESU encourages Alþingi to focus on Icelandic students’ grants

Fri 03 May 2013

The European Student’s Union (ESU) encourages the newly elected Icelandic Parliament, Alþingi, to confirm the government bill making changes to the Icelandic loan system for students.

 
BM 64 - On the process of designing a new research funding allocation system in Sweden

Fri 03 May 2013

Recently the Swedish government initiated an inquiry into and with the mission to suggest a new resource allocation system for research with the main commission going to the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet).

 
BM 64 - ESU against raising tuition fees for foreign students in Switzerland

Fri 03 May 2013

The Social Democrat Party of Switzerland put forward a motion in March requesting that students studying at the Federal Institutes of Technology in Zurich and Lausanne would have to pay between two and three thousand Euros of tuition fees per year, depending on their fiscal residence, while domestic students would have to pay just over one thousand.

 
BM 64 - European students oppose the Master’s Degree Loan Guarantee Scheme

Fri 03 May 2013

As students we demand that the European Parliament and the Council reject the idea of establishing a EU Master’s Degree Loan Guarantee Scheme, as currently stands in the proposal from the European Commission on “Erasmus for all”. We, representative students’ organisations in Europe, demand that the money originally planned to establish the loan scheme, will be directed towards supporting student mobility through grants.

 
BM 64 - Intergenerational equality

Fri 03 May 2013

We, the European Students’ Union, demand that the European Union takes action to put in place measures that will guarantee an intergenerational equality in the midst of the financial crisis. ESU further demands that the EU takes a decisive action to prevent a rise in youth unemployment, prolongation of periods spent in working life, and the irresponsible use of pension funds as a tool to solve the financial crisis.

 
BM 64 - On the Law “On Higher Education” in Ukraine

Fri 03 May 2013

The European Students’ Union, as an umbrella organisation of the National Unions of Students in Europe, would like to point out the fact that there is a need for an equal stakeholders’ participation in discussions on changes to the legislation, especially students and academia representatives.

 
BM64 - Resolution on the establishment of a scheme for persecuted students

Fri 03 May 2013

ESU commends the work of students taking an active role in society. We demand that governments within the European community establish a scheme in which students, who have been expelled from higher education institutions on the basis of their political commitment, can complete their education in Europe. These students must also be provided with the required financial and practical support.

 
 
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