2008 Archive

ESU marks International Student's Day

Mon 17 Nov 2008

ESU is standing shoulder-to-shoulder with students and student organisations around the globe to mark International Student's Day today, 17th November, commemorated for the last 67 years in honour of the more than 1200 students who died as a result of a Nazi assault on Prague University in 1939.

 
ESU bringing Armenia in from the cold

Tue 14 Oct 2008

ESU is continuing to strengthen its links further east in Europe with a second visit to Armenia to assess the student movement on the ground and the key challenges which it is currently facing. After a successful research visit to the capital, Yerevan, in June this year, ESU representatives returned from 18th-21st September to conduct a follow-up session with Armenian students. Having gathered comprehensive baseline information in June, the purpose of this visit was for ESU to present its repo

 
ESU Reacts to Situation in Georgia

Wed 27 Aug 2008

PRESS RELEASE
ESU REACTS TO SITUATION TO GEORGIA

RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 19th, 2008

 
EQAR open for Applications

Thu 21 Aug 2008

ESU is a member of the E4 group, which was mandated by the ministers in London to set up a Quality Assurance Register.

 
Join The ESU Team in Brussels! (Call for Information and Communication Officer)

Tue 19 Aug 2008

ESU is looking for a recently graduated, creative team player to fill the position of Information and Communication Officer (ICO) at its headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.

 
ESU has Launched the Student Trainers’ Pool

Sat 16 Aug 2008

In July ESU has launched the student trainers’ pool consisting of 13 young people, among them alumni of ESU and the national unions of students and ESU elected representatives, all experienced in trainings and higher education policy.

 
ESU Assesses Student Movement in Armenia

Mon 23 Jun 2008

The European Students’ Union was invited by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in the European office in Yerevan (OSCE) to conduct a study visit of the Armenian students’ movement. This took place from the 8th-14th June. Our mandate was to assess the strengths and weaknesses of student councils in particular, within the general framework of the Armenian higher education sector. In this capacity, the study visit team carried out interviews with the main actors in the higher education s

 
Tuition Fees Rejected in Denmark

Fri 23 May 2008

May 23rd: As the battle against tuition fees continues across Europe, ESU’s Danish member, DSF, had good news to share. DSF has long demanded that the education system remain free for all and that the law on Higher Education be overviewed in order to ensure there are no barriers such as tuition fees. As many of their European colleagues, they believe that in order to create a knowledge society independent of individual social inheritance, then the educational system must remain free of charge.

 
The Future of Education and Training Through Student Eyes

Mon 19 May 2008

May 19th: ESU RELEASES ITS' POSITION ON THE PREPARATION OF AN UPDATED STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR EUROPEAN CO OPERATION IN EDUCATION AND TRAINING

With this contribution to the preparation of an updated strategic framework for European co operation in education and training, the European Students’ Union, representing 11 millions of students in Europe, shares its vision on the future priorities for Higher Education policies after 2010. We will focus on the three strategic goals closely linked to th

 
Commission's Proposal On Erasmus Mundus not up to Scratch

Thu 15 May 2008

May 15th: Erasmus Mundus is a cooperation and mobility program for European higher education. The official aim of the program is to enhance the quality of European higher education by fostering co-operation with third countries in order to improve the development of human resources and to promote dialogue and understanding between peoples and cultures. The program should promote Europe as a centre of excellence in these third countries and thus enhance the attractiveness. The European Commission

 
ESU calls for a European integration of the Republic of Serbia

Sun 11 May 2008

May 11th: At it’s 54th Board Meeting, ESU accepted an external motion calling for the integration of the Republic of Serbia into the European Union. A Serbia within the EU will lead to major improvements for Serbia's students such as stronger mobility, an improved quality of academia and equal treatment of other EU students whilst studying abroad.

 
A New ESU Generation Takes the Floor

Thu 10 May 2007

May 10th: ESU is currently hosting its' 54th Board Meeting, along with Slovak member SRVS. Gathered in Brusno, Central Slovakia, 140 reprsentatives from ESUs member unions, are discussing the last six months of ESU work and deciding on the future courses of action. Of note, are the numerous elections which have taken place yesterday and today. The current volunteers end their mandate in July and will not be replaced post for post since ESU passed a new set of structures at its' last board meetin

 
European Students for Democracy

Mon 21 Apr 2008

April 21st: In march this year, The European Students' Union (ESU) and the Slovenian Student Union (SSU) organised the 15th European Student Convention in Ljubljana, Slovenia.. The topic was: Students for Democracy. The Slovenian presidency of the European Union supported the convention as a part of the agenda of the Slovenian presidency of the European Union. The convention will be co-organized by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology of the Republic of Slovenia.

 
Launch of the Learnovation Stakeholders' Roundtable

Thu 06 Mar 2008

5th March: More than 40 key EU and national lifelong stakeholders gathered at the European Commission to discuss a new vision of innovation in learning, that embeds ICT for learning as well as lifelong learning in a comprehensive and future-oriented perspective, and to share ideas and proposals on how to bring the Learnovation initiative forward.

 
The European Quality Assurance Register is born

Wed 05 Mar 2008

4th March: The European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR) was officially launched in Brussels today in a move designed to improve the quality of European higher education and to promote greater student mobility.

 
Lisbon Training in Budapest

Tue 04 Mar 2008

4th March: ESU unions from the Baltics and South Eastern Europe converged upon Budapest this past weekend for the second in ESU’s series of three regional trainings on the Lisbon Agenda.

 
Denmark against tuition fees in Erasmus Mundus

Tue 26 Feb 2008

February 13th: Erasmus Mundus has been established in 2003 to enhance international cooperation and mobility not only within the EU, but also beyond.

As such it is building on the experiences made with the EU mobility schemes ERASMUS and TEMPUS. Elements of the Erasmus Mundus program include the support of integrated master courses, scholarships for third—country nationals (i.e. students with citizenship outside the EU and candidate countries, EEA and EFTA), scholarships for EU students and

 
Erasmus Mundus Master courses to be evaluated in 2008

Tue 26 Feb 2008

20th February: The European Commission is undertaking a project in 2008 of assessing the quality of 6 Erasmus Mundus master courses in order to establish good practice for the development of future programs.

 
Please Give us 10 Minutes of Your Time

Mon 04 Feb 2008

February 4th: The European Universities Association (EUA) has launched a new project to explore the state of Master’s programmes as the Bologna Process moves forward. EUA would particularly like to find out about students’ perceptions of “new” master programmes in the current Bologna period.

 
Wind of Change in Belarus

Tue 29 Jan 2008

The rules for entering higher education in Belarus are going to be changed soon. The attitude of the Belarusian state to higher education is also changing. The ministry in charge has already warned that there are too many specialists with higher education diplomas and a lack of labor force at the same time. What are the steps to be taken by the state to solve the problem?

 
 
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