2007 Archive

Barcelona Conference sets the scene for Quality Assurance Recognition

Wed 19 Dec 2007

December 12th 2007: Held in Barcelona over two days, the European Consortium for Accreditation (ECA) conference bought together representatives of governments, institutions, students, employers, recognition authorities, and other European and international quality assurance agencies.

 
ESU Welcomes new Israeli Member

Mon 10 Dec 2007

December 10th 2007: ESU and all its' members would like to extend a warm welcome to our new Israeli member, NUIS (The National Union of Israeli Students). The ESU board granted NUIS membership at the 53rd Board meeting held in Vilnius last week. NUIS is not the only national student union in Israel, but is by all accounts the largest, representing around 250 000 students who are members of NUIS's member unions.

 
ESU Opens the Door to the Ukrainian Student Movement

Tue 04 Dec 2007

December 4th 2007: Decisions of the 53rd European Students Union (ESU) Board Meeting concerning the Ukrainian student movement marked a very important step in the history of both the Ukrainian student movement and ESU. The history of contact and cooperation between Ukrainian students and ESU goes back to 2002. During the evaluation of the Ukrainian students movement since this time, it became quite clear to ESU, that there were two national unions of students in Ukraine that could potentially be

 
What is happening in France?

Fri 23 Nov 2007

November 23rd 2007: Dear Friends,

As some of you may have heard, there are currently a number of strikes and protests in France. In the next few days, UNEF will release an international Newsletter which will serve to inform all Higher Education actors, and especially student unions, of what is going on.

 
Manufacturing Higher Education in Romania

Mon 12 Nov 2007

Romanian Higher Education is often a field of great contradictions and high volatility as government after government completes a never ending cycle of reforms and amendments on present laws. Of course, not all of these reforms plump to the interests of students, but most are beneficial to overall quality and to student welfare.

 
Technical Difficulties

Thu 08 Nov 2007

Dear Visitor,

ESU would like to inform you that, due to no fault of our own, we have been experiencing technical difficulties with regards to our mailserver.

 
Amidane's Story

Wed 24 Oct 2007

ESU was delighted to welcome a student activist from the Western Sahara to our 14th European Student Convention. It was fascinating for our representatives to hear her story and understand the consequences student activism can have in some corners of the earth. Rabab told a rapt audience of her experiences -

 
ESC14 Report

Wed 24 Oct 2007

The 14th European Student Convention was a resounding success. Over a hundred participants descended on Lisbon for four days in order to discus the Lisbon Agenda from the perspective of European Students. Workshop topics included Employability in Relation to Social Cohesion, Financial Sustainability of HE, The Student Contribution towards the Lisbon goals, The role of HE in creating and environmentally sustainable society and HE and regional development.

 
Birthday Wishes from the European Commission

Tue 16 Oct 2007

On behalf of the European Commission, I would like to express my congratulations to the European Students' Union on its 25th anniversary. As you know, the EU is also celebrating an anniversary of its own-its 50th. There is a similarity in our histories: when seven national unions of students decided in 1982 to set up the West European Student Information Bureau
an end to the Cold War was not in sight and you had to start setting up the core of a European body that was, for the time being, restr

 
Birthday Wishes from EI

Tue 16 Oct 2007

From Stockholm ……to Lisbon
Once upon a time a few pioneers gathered in Stokholm in 1982 to establish WESIB , an information sharing organisation and did not probably imagine that they were founding a European student trade union movement , now the umbrella organisation of 47 national unions of students from 36 countries representing over 10 million students.
Last May when ESIB became the European Student Union (ESU) EI welcomes this name change , signifying the work of ESU as a union, highl

 
Birthday Wishes from EUA

Tue 16 Oct 2007

Happy birthday ESU!
Several name changes and 25 years of age have made you and your members a strong voice for students in Europe. Student involvement has never been so widely and generally accepted as it is today. So, although much remains to be done, it is fair to say that the European model of student involvement in higher education policy development and institutional governance at every level is something quite exceptional and an important element in the specific European dimension of hig

 
20% of students mobile by 2020

Mon 15 Oct 2007

October 4th-5th: The closing conference of the 20th Anniversary of the Erasmus mobility programme celebrations was an overriding success. Close to a thousand participants were brought together for a final conference including discussions on the history and the past of the event. Jacques Delors (President of the Commission in 1987) recorded a video message for the gathered participants and many key people took to the microphone.

 
Call for Tender: Development of a logo and a website

Fri 12 Oct 2007

The E4 Group (ENQA, EUA, EURASHE and ESU) invites interested parties to file a tender for the development of a logo, document templates and a website for the European Quality Assurance Register in Higher Education (EQAR).
The tender shall be based on the terms of reference below and provide a detailed outline of the services offered, a breakdown of the total costs, references to third-party software, products or services the tenderer intends to use and references to similar services provided by

 
New Visa Agreements for Balkan Countries

Wed 19 Sep 2007

18th September 2007: The European Union has signed agreements with five Balkan countries which will make it easier for citizens of these countries to obtain EU visas, in particular students, journalists and business travelers. The concerned countries, Albania, Bosnia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia had issued complaints that the visa rules were constraining them into a ghetto at the heart of Europe.

 
ESU Reacts to the OECD's Report

Tue 18 Sep 2007

19th September 2007: The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) today released it’s yearly « Education at a Glance » report.

 
Conference on Mobility - Where are we Going?

Thu 13 Sep 2007

ESU Member, POFEN (the Pancyprian Federation of Student Unions), is organising a conference on mobility for ESU members. This will take place in Limassol, Cyprus, from the 27th till the 30th of September this year. The conference will open in Nicosia in a session with the Ministry of Education and the President of the Cypriot Parliament.

 
Higher Education Reforms in Turkey

Thu 13 Sep 2007

The new elected Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, recently announced dramatic changes in HE reforms of Turkey. The changes include the abolishment of the current Higher Education Board (YÖK) System. The duties of YÖK will be overtaken by the Inter-University Coordination Board (ÜAK). Their plans of the new HE Board are to work on programs to coordinate between the Universities. With the new system, the rectors of the Universities will be elected by the University Senates.

 
Private Financing Increases Funding Stake

Tue 04 Sep 2007

The Institute for Higher Education Policy’s (IHEP) - www.ihep.org/gcpf/ - Global Center on Private Financing of Higher Education (GCPF) released a report that explores the growing importance of private capital to nations where governments seek additional resources to share the rising costs per student and increasing enrolment rates.

 
Globalisation & Higher Education

Tue 04 Sep 2007

The Organisation for Economic Co - Operation and Development (OECD) has published a new paper: "Globalisation and Higher Education" (Education Working paper No. 8). This publication explores the issues for national policy and for individual institutions.

 
Serbia too Highly Rewarded?

Thu 30 Aug 2007

July 5th 2007: At the ministerial summit of Higher Education of European countries held in London in May, Serbia was awarded a grade 4 in the field of implementation of reforms in the Higher Education area. This means that Serbia is amingst a group of countries with the best reforms in Higher Education. In Bergen 2005 the situation was different. Indeed, Serbia came after Albania and Bosnia & Herzegovina as the worst graded country.

 
 
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