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ESU supports Intern Action Day for Quality Internships

Wed 16 May 2012

BRUSSELS - It is Intern Action Day, a day of awareness raising for better quality standards for internships and apprenticeships. Thousands of young people are doing internships in Europe, but there is lack of clear quality requirements and a regulatory framework. The European Youth Forum organises today YO! Fest – Intern Action Day, the first gathering of young interns in Europe at the Esplanade of the European Parliament.

 
ESU slams attack from Spanish newspapers on student leaders amid doubling of tuition fees

Fri 11 May 2012

MADRID – The European Students’ Union (ESU) deems the content of several articles in the Spanish media very inappropriate as it jeopardizes the future of the student movement in the country. La Razón, one of Spain’s biggest newspapers published on 9 May 2012 a front page article which revealed many personal details of five national student leaders in Spain while criticizing the age and personal academic careers of the students.

 
ESU finds worldwide support for Chilean students

Thu 10 May 2012

BRUSSELS – The European Students’ Union (ESU) has successfully rallied for international support to their statement on the repression of Chilean students who are fighting for educational reforms in their country. National and regional blocks of student unions from Asia, the Pacific, Africa, Latin-America, Russia, the United States and Turkey (*) are now backing ESU in their solidarity actions.

 
Students ask Bologna ministers to put more money on the table

Thu 26 Apr 2012

BUCHAREST - The European Students’ Union (ESU) believes that the Bologna Ministerial Conference on 26 and 27 April in Bucharest is a great opportunity to revitalise the ongoing standstill of the Bologna Process by investing the highest possible


level of public money in higher education.

 
ESU shocked by Chilean student repression

Wed 25 Apr 2012

BUCHAREST – The European Students’ Union (ESU) is shocked that the Chilean students have faced threats, intimidation and violence during their fight for reforms in higher education. Allan Päll, Chairperson of ESU, said: “ESU believes in the rights of students



to shape their future without being pressured, threatened or targeted with violence.”

 
ESU: “Ministers are loosing grip of EHEA”

Tue 24 Apr 2012

BRUSSELS – The European Students’ Union (ESU) is very concerned about the future of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) at the dawn of the Ministerial Meeting on the Bologna Process in Bucharest on 26 and 27 April. In its analysis Bologna With Student
















Eyes 2012, published on 18 April, it concludes that ever since 2009, the Bologna Process has been sliding backwards in some key action lines such as the social dimension, financing of mobility and sustaining e

 
European Students’ Union elects new Chairperson

Mon 23 Apr 2012

BUCHAREST – Karina Ufert from Lithuania was elected as the new Chairperson 2012-2013 of the European Students’ Union (ESU) on 22 April in Bucharest. Ufert: “European governments are looking for ways to cut their spending to keep or get their economies

back on track. Only by making the right choices and prioritising education, we can get Europe out of the crisis in a socially and economically sustainable way.” Ufert and her new team will take office on 1 July.

 
ESU publishes Activity Report 2011

Sun 15 Apr 2012

BRUSSELS – The ESU Activity Report 2011 is online now. The report describes the main activities of the European Students’ Union in 2011 and provides an overview of student campaigns and demonstrations in Europe in 2011.

 
Cuts in social support force Portuguese students to leave education

Tue 03 Apr 2012

LISBON - Thousands of students in Portugal are forced to drop out of the education system because of economic reasons. Since September 2011, more than 5000 students have left higher education in Portugal, a number that shows clearly that injustice is








rising in one of the countries with low higher education rates in Europe.

 
“Bologna reforms in most countries not noticeable since 2009”

Fri 30 Mar 2012

BRUSSELS - Given the rapid changes in higher education and numerous ongoing reforms, especially in funding systems, the eight Bologna Process Ministerial Conference aims to be yet another milestone in establishing the European Higher Education


Area. The conference is to take place on 26 and 27 April in Bucharest, Romania.

 
ESU to elect a new Chairperson within three weeks

Fri 30 Mar 2012

BUCHAREST - The European Students’ Union (ESU) will elect a new Chairperson during its 62nd Board Meeting in Bucharest, Romania, on 22 April. The fight for the helm of ESU will take place between Karina Ufert (Lithuania, currently ESU Vice-Chair) and Magnus





Malnes (Norway, currently member of ESU’s Academic Affairs committee). Next to this, the Board of ESU will elect two new Vice-Chairs and 7 new Executive Committee (EC) members.

 
Obstacles to student involvement still exist in Azerbaijan

Fri 30 Mar 2012

BAKU – Some barriers to student involvement in Azerbaijan still exist, possibly due to the geopolitical situation and the political history of the country. This is one of the conclusions from the visit of an ESU delegation to ATGTI, Candidate Member of


ESU, which took place between 4 and 11 March. ATGTI is the acronym for the Azerbaijan Student Youth Organizations' Union (also known as ASYOU). Azerbaijan only recently joined the Bologna Process.

 
Commission replies to ESU on restriction of freedom for state-funded students in Hungary

Fri 30 Mar 2012

BRUSSELS – “Requiring a person to work for a certain number of years in Hungary after completing education could potentially be an obstacle to free movement of workers”, writes the European Commission in reply to an urgent letter from the European Students’




Union (ESU) on the new Hungarian Higher Education bill. The Commission letter is dated 22 March.

 
Students oppose EU Loan Scheme

Tue 27 Mar 2012

BRUSSELS – The European Students’ Union (ESU) calls for more access to education mobility by linking the size of Erasmus grants to the socio-economic background of a student. It also makes a strong fist against the EU Loan Guarantee Scheme, part of the





‘Erasmus for All’ programme, proposed by the European Commission in November 2011.

 
Students make recommendations to get young Europe out of crisis

Mon 19 Mar 2012

COPENHAGEN - The 23rd European Students Convention discussed employability and employment from 17 to 19 March in Copenhagen.

 
ESU supports Europe-wide protests against regime of Belarus on 18 March

Fri 16 Mar 2012

BRUSSELS – The European Students’ Union (ESU) gives its full support to the pan-European street protests against the regime in Belarus, on 18 March. The action is organised by the Young European Federalists (YEF). Allan Päll, ESU Chairperson, said: “The





President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, is continuously repressing the people in the country for the past sixteen years. ESU has seen a vast amount of violations of human rights and has especially been concerned about the situation

 
NY Times: "Hungarian Students Decry State Sponsorship Cuts and Other Changes"

Mon 05 Mar 2012

BUDAPEST — University students and administrators are complaining of a climate of uncertainty as the government rolls out changes in the higher education system, including sharp cuts in the number of state-sponsored students and an obligation for them



to work in Hungary after graduation. (New York Times, 5 March 2012, by PALKO KARASZ).

 
ESU: “Czech new higher education bill should be binned”

Wed 29 Feb 2012

PRAGUE – The European Students’ Union (ESU) gives its strong support to the week of student protests in the Czech Republic, which take place from 27 February to 2 March all around the country. Czech students are protesting against two new law proposals.






The biggest students protest march will take place in Prague, on 29 February.

 
INTERVIEW: President of Danish national union of students, Torben Holm

Wed 29 Feb 2012

COPENHAGEN - As Denmark currently holds the rotating EU Presidency and the 23rd European Students' Convention is jointly organised with the Danish national union of students DSF, ESU made an interview with the new president of DSF, Torben Holm.







that for Danish students, the higher education debate focuses on the financial situation of students and their employability.

 
Kyiv makes big step forward in higher education reform

Wed 29 Feb 2012

KYIV - For more than two years now hard discussion on the reform of higher education of Ukraine takes place. It has resulted in a number of students protests and made even academics take the streets in 2011 to express their disagreement. But it looks like

the protests now finally are bearing fruit as reforms are on their way in the country.

 
 
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