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Dear Friends,
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The European Students' Union is gearing up for its
55th Board Meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria next month. Close to 100 national
student representatives will gather to review the last 6 months of
ESU's work and to outline the priorities for the coming half year.
Ligia
Deca will be attending her first Board Meeting as Chairperson and is
looking forward to presenting the results of her work thus far: "During
the course of the last few months, we have pushed through the student
priorities in the Bologna Follow Up Group discussions and we are
fighting to put student issues in the spotlight within the Bologna
post-2010 framework. We have also made great strides into
reestablishing regional student platforms working with the UN". Read more...
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| Shedding light on student rights
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ESU joined forces with OBESSU (Organising Burea of European School
Student Unions) to launch a new campaign to promote the rights of
school and university students at this year's European Social Forum.
The aim of the campaign is to raise awareness and underline the
importance of a legal framework allowing students across Europe to
focus on their education. More...
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ESU heading to Bulgaria for its next BM
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ESU members will be converging on Bulgaria in the event of its 55th
Board Meeting in Sofia in late November 2008. This time, attention
will turn to the issue of Student Centered Learning and specifically,
the impact that this should have on all aspects of university life:
from curricula to governance and from the size of the classrooms to
pedagogy. Discussions will focus on how to increase student
participation, so that it goes beyond just voting in general elections,
as well as on how to ensure that students are seen as full partners in
quality evaluations, social activities, university referenda, teaching
and so on.
More...
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Upcoming Events
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24th-27th Nov: ESU Student Centred Learning Seminar, Sofia
28th-30th Nov: 55th Board Meeting, Sofia
15th-17th Feb: 17th European Student's Convention, Prague
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| ESU reaches a mobility milestone in Lille
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ESU celebrated a year of achievements with a highly successful
validation conference to mark the culmination of its 'Let's Go'
mobility campaign with Education International. Delegates from across
Europe and including representatives from the European Commission
gathered at the Lille 3 university on 6th and 7th October to assess the
progress made over the last twelve months and to define the aims and
shape a strategy for taking the campaign forward for the future. More...
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| ESU stands up against Italian education reforms
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European Students' Union (ESU) and OBESSU, the Organising Bureau of
European School Students Unions, would like to express their strong
support to the current students' movement in Italy which sees our
Italian Member Organisations Unione Degli Unisversitari (UDU) and
Unione Degli Studenti (UDS) as some of the main actors. Today
(October 29th), the Italian Parliament approved the law "DL 137" from
the Minister of Education Gelmini. The law plans over € 8 billion of
cuts from the education budget, a measure which will dramatically
reduce the quality of public schools and will favour private schools. More...
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ESU evaluates Quality Assurance in Romania |
ESU
has taken a major step into the world of quality assurance by
completing an evaluation of the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance
(QA) in higher education, ARACIS, which was established in 2005 to take
forward the work begun by its predecessor, the CNEAA. The evaluation was carried out between June-September 2008 by three student experts nominated by ESU: More...
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European Students' Union
20 Rue De La Sablonnière
1000 Bruxelles
Belgium
www.esu-online.org
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