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Dear Friends,
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Since January 2008,
ESU has been sending the Student Voice out to over 2000 interested
parties, including our members, alumni, Members of the European
Parliament, Commissioners, Media and so on. Every week, over 50 new
people sign up to receive the newsletter via the link on our website.
As a general rule, we aim to make the newsletter as collaborative an
effort as possible, inviting members to share their news More...
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ESU Seminar on Equity - May 6th-8th
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The equity seminar is the launching conference of a two-year project
titled 'Equity in Higher Education from a Student Perspective'. The
project aims to collect research about equity in higher education, as
well as develop sustainable training materials that can be used by
national unions of students. It will involve national unions of
students in all stages and is aimed to inform you of our state of the
art discussions on the topic.
More...
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Upcoming Events
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May 5-8: Seminar on Equity in HE
May 9-11: ESU Board Meeting
June 08: Lisbon Training, Brussels |
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| ECTS Under the Spotlight
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The European Credit Transfer and accumulation System (ECTS) is a burning
issue on the European level. The new ECTS key features were adopted in
December 2007. The
basic rules of the ECTS system stay the same: "6O ECTS credits are
attached to the workload of a full-time year of formal learning
(academic year) and the associated learning outcomes". After intense
debates, learning outcomes and workload are still recognized as the two
pillars of ECTS. The new topics which are emphasized in this version
are the lifelong learning and the non formal and informal learning. It
is important that lifelong learning is linked to ECTS because it can
facilitate the recognition mechanism, and as such develop the further
education and also widen the access to Higher Education. This one page
long document will find more sense and will be more understandable when
the new version of the ECTS Users Guide will be ready. More...
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What Does Study-Choice have to do with Gender?
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The choice of study is often gender-based, since there are existing
obstacles and attitudes that affect the individual's choice. This is
obvious in many subjects, for example in nursing and social science,
which are female dominated, and in male dominated subjects like
science, engineering and technology. When
this is stressed, it's not a criticism on those females that choose
to study nursing or males that wish to study engineering, but saying
that we need to remove obstacles and break stereotypes, that prevent
individuals from choosing male/ female dominated subjects, based on the
strong feeling that they don't belong there. More...
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| Hungary Abolishes Tuition Fees
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In
February 2006, politicians responsible for Higher Education from the
four main Hungairan parties agreed not to introduce tuition feees in
Hungary. However, just 5 months later, The Hungarian Parliament passed a
bill introducing tuition fees, ignoring student protests and
statements. Follow the link to see a timeline of the struggle which
finally saw tuition fees abolished in March 2008! We would like to
congratulate our Hungarian Member, HOÖK on the efforts which saw them
prevail, and to thank all the fellow national unions across Europe who
leant their support to this cause. See a timeline...
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Mobility Campaign Update
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The"Let's
Go" campaign has been moving forward. Fliers, posters, banners have
been developed and can be downloaded from the Campaign web site: www.letsgocampaign.net.
Another
feature on the website is the Draft Petition that addresses Ministers
responsible for higher education to move on mobility. Many promises
within the Bologna Process have to be fulfilled in order to give staff
and students to opportunity to work or study abroad. The petition will
be used by national campaign partners to gather support for the
campaign. You are welcome to comment on the petition. Once final,
the petition will be distributed to national and European authorities.
We are again encouraging all of you to take active role in the campaign.
This is a unique chance to show that we want to be mobile and we want a
European Higher Education Area without barriers and borders.
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Toward a National Qualifications Framework
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The
European Students' Union organised The Validation Conference of
the 'Towards a National Qualifications Framework' Project, from the
21st to the 22nd of April 2008, in Lake Bled, Slovenia. The conference
was the final event of this project aimed at facilitating mutual
exchange of experiences between stakeholders from different countries
in setting up a National Qualifications Framework (NQF), implementing
the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) by aligning their NQF to it
and putting in place supporting instruments necessary to allow for the
full success of the EQF. Visit our project page to read More...
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European Students' Union
20 Rue De LA Sablonnière
1000 Bruxelles
Belgium
www.esu-online.org
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