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Dear Friends,
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The
last two months have seen a flurry of activity at ESU HQ. The current
executive committee held their first Board Meeting in such a capacity,
we said goodbye to long standing volunteer and later project officer,
Anthony Camilleri and student rights were consistently in the news, in
ways both positive and negative. The current financial crisis has
caused budgetary restraint with knock on consequences for Higher
Education funding, to which ESU is of course party. Read more...
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| Disenfranchising Student Rights in Romania
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Students in Romania are being deprived of their democratic right to
vote because of bureaucratic procedures recently imposed by the
Romanian Government. The root of the problem lies in rules requiring
people to be resident for three months in a locality in order to be
eligible to vote, and in the renewal system for temporary residence
permits only taking place once a year. This system means that a high
proportion of students are not considered 'resident' in their centre of
study, and are therefore ineligible to vote. More...
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Taking Bologna Towards 2020
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As
the current phase of the Bologna Process comes to an end in 2010,
attention is focusing on how to continue the reform process into the
next decade. With a view to making its views felt at the key
decision-making forum of the Ministerial Conference in Leuven, Belgium,
in April 2009, ESU has just launched a new policy paper to provide an
analysis of the progress so far, and to outline the student perspective
on the key priorities for the next stage.
More...
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Upcoming Events
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15th-17th Feb: 17th European Student's Convention, Prague
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2009 - The Year of a Stronger Student Movement
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ESU
has launched its official Plan of Work (POW) for 2009, outlining a
comrpehensive series of priorities to steer the organisation over the
next 12 months. The 2009 POW is all about working 'For a Stronger
Student Movement' and focuses on four main external priorities and a
chapter on internal development. More...
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ESU Gathers in Sofia
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ESU representatives from across Europe gathered in Sofia, Europe's
second oldest city, for the 55th Board Meeting of the European
Students' Union. The week started with a 3- day seminar on
student-centred learning, which, through a series of workshops,
explored what this actually means for higher education and its
institutions as a whole, and how ESU can ensure that this concept is
placed at the very centre of all its external activities.
More...
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European Students' Union
20 Rue De La Sablonnière
1000 Bruxelles
Belgium
www.esu-online.org
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