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Discrimination based on homosexuality must be brought to an end

Fri 17 May 2013

ESU hacks

BRUSSELS – The European Students Union (ESU) calls on the United Nations and the Council of Europe to introduce and support a resolution calling for an end to discrimination based on homosexuality and for all citizens of Europe to pursue their life choices freely and without fear or personal danger.

 
Four policy papers adopted at ESU’s Board Meeting

Tue 30 Apr 2013

BM64

BUDAPEST - After a year of intensive work, the highest decision making body of the European Students Union (ESU) has discussed thoroughly and adopted four core policy papers on higher education.

 
SAGE training: No jobs, no solution

Tue 30 Apr 2013

SAGE Training

BUDAPEST – Students’ perspectives need to be brought to decision makers in order to support the policy-making processes for sustainable higher education reforms. Therefore, ESU’s project called Student Advancement of Graduates Employability (SAGE) provides an important input to the current educational reforms as it addresses the question of why employability shouldn’t only be defined accordingly to labour market’s terms.

 
Alternatives to student loans must be considered

Tue 30 Apr 2013

Students

BUDAPEST – Students want more investments in the grant system for higher education in Europe much rather than to introduce a new loan scheme like the European Commission has proposed. They demand that the European Parliament and Council look at alternative measures on how student mobility can be enhanced instead of including the loan facility in the Erasmus for all programme starting in 2014.

 
A new leadership for ESU has been elected

Tue 30 Apr 2013

Rok Primozic

BUDAPEST – Rok Primozic, from Slovenia, has been elected as a new Chairperson of the European Students’ Union (ESU). Along with Primozic, two Vice-Chairpersons and seven Executive Commitee members were also chosen at the 64th Board Meeting of ESU taking place in Budapest, Hungary, from 26 to 28 April.

 
The Erasmus funding gap must be eliminated

Thu 25 Apr 2013

Time

BRUSSELS – Students have been given a new hope that the uncertainty arising from the EU’s budget negotiations on education and youth may soon be eradicated. A new agreement might take care of the 126 million euros that are needed for the Lifelong learning and Erasmus programmes this year.

 
A double tuition system in Switzerland hurts student mobility efforts

Wed 24 Apr 2013

Bern

BERN – A decision to double or even triple the tuition fees paid by students whose parents do not pay taxes in Switzerland would diminish the country’s international student population, reduce cultural diversity and hurt any attempts to attract talented people from all over the world. This is the opinion of the European Students’ Union (ESU).

 
Students say no to a shrunken Erasmus budget

Wed 17 Apr 2013

Erasmus budget

BRUSSELS – The European Students’ Union (ESU) is deeply disappointed that billions of euros might be slashed from the original budget proposal for education and youth in the EU’s multiannual financial framework from 2014 to 2020 because of the austerity demand set by the European Council in February.

 
Education should be protected from austerity

Tue 09 Apr 2013

European Year of Citizens

BRUSSELS – The European Students’ Union (ESU) welcomes the idea of making 2013 a European Year of Citizens and urges decision-makers to reflect on how their policies affect societies in Europe.

 
Participate in a survey on student guidance in your university

Mon 08 Apr 2013

Student

BRUSSELS – The Stay In project aims at designing and developing services capable of supporting students in higher education during their academic career, for example by offering them guidance on how to access available and prospective opportunities within universities and in relevant communities. Guidance is conceived as personalised support for each student to tackle potential obstacles that could possibly lead to his or her disengagement and drop-out.

 
ESU looks for students interested in going to Montreal

Mon 08 Apr 2013

Little girl reading

MONTREAL – The Europan Students‘ Union (ESU) proudly announces the opening of a call for students who are interested in participating in the first World Congress on Access to Post-secondary Education taking place from 7 to 10 October 2013 in Montreal, Canada.

 
Disappointing move by the Icelandic Parliament

Fri 05 Apr 2013

Althingi

REYKJAVIK – “We find it very unfortunate and discouraging that the Icelandic Parliament did not realise the importance of adopting a legal bill that would have improved the financial situation of students greatly. Now, the future of the proposal will be in the hands of voters in Iceland that will choose a new set of parliamentarians at the end of April,” says Karina Ufert, Chairperson of the European Students’ Union (ESU).

 
Ukrainian students must enjoy democratic rights

Thu 04 Apr 2013

Ukraine

KIEV – The European Students’ Union (ESU) is appalled by the Ministry of Education and Science‘s attempt to influence the work of Ukraine‘s student bodies.

 
Student benefits cause a populist overreaction

Thu 04 Apr 2013

Students in Denmark

COPENHAGEN – The European Students’ Union (ESU) is dismayed by the political debate in Denmark where the Liberal and People’s Party have used a recent judgment by the European Court of Justice as a lame excuse to attack international students residing in the country.

 
Budget cuts to education in contrast with EU2020 goals

Fri 29 Mar 2013

BRUSSELS – The European Students’ Union (ESU) raises strong concerns about the consequences the imposed cuts in national budgets for education would have for Europe in the long run. ESU believes that those cuts divert the EU away from its agreed strategy for inclusive growth (EU2020).

 
In the midst of hot springs and smelly sharks

Fri 29 Mar 2013

NOM

REYKJAVIK – Nordic and Baltic students gathered in Iceland from 21 to 24 March to talk about employability of students and recent graduates and different ways to courage entrepreneurship and innovation. One of the projects run by the European Students’ Union (ESU), called Student Advancement of Graduates’ Employability (SAGE), was presented at the conference.

 
ESU participates in the ECTS revision process

Fri 29 Mar 2013

Bologna

BRUSSELS - The European Students’ Union took part in the first meeting of the ad hoc working group on modifying the ECTS Guide, following up on recommendations from the meeting of the 47 Education Ministers involved in the Bologna Process in Bucharest in 2012.

 
Four policy papers up for ESU’s Board Meeting

Fri 29 Mar 2013

BM

BUDAPEST – The 64th Board Meeting of the European Students´ Union (ESU) will be taking place next month, from 26 to 28 April, in Budapest, Hungary. A revision of ESU’s policy will be at the top of the agenda, but the process was kicked off last autumn when participants discussed and approved a policy paper on the social dimension of higher education.

 
Europe must do more on the Social Dimension of Higher Education

Fri 29 Mar 2013

ESC25

DUBLIN – More than one hundred students and students‘ representatives from across Europe participated in the 25th European Students‘ Convention where they challenged each other in discussions about the social dimension and equality of higher education in times of immense economic pressures. This debate took place in Dublin from 7 to 11 March.

 
 
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