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Dear readers,
This month
we are glad to announce you that ESU were accepted to the ET2020 Working
Group on the Modernisation of Higher Education for the mandate January
2016 - June 2018.
Furthermore, to provide high-quality capacity
building services for our members, we launched a new pool of trainers
who will provide consultancy to our members on various topics, from
project management to advocacy and communication.
On the
downside, we are disappointed by the latest attacks on academic freedom
in countries such as Turkey and Egypt - yet another sign of how
education can be seen as a threat to various regimes.
Sincerely,
ESU team
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New EU's Education and Training 2020 (ET2020) working groups kick off
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  For
first time, the membership of the all the working groups is open by
default to stakeholder organisations. The European Students' Union has
became member of the Working Group on the Modernization of Higher
Education for the mandate January 2016 - June 2018.
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Academic freedom in Egypt: We need justice for PhD student killed in Egypt
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 Giulio
Regeni, a 28 years old Italian PhD student at the University of
Cambridge, has been killed in Egypt while conducting researches for his
thesis. Read more |
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ESU launches new Pool of Trainers
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We
encourage all our members to make use of ESU's New Pool of Trainers.
Besides the provision of training events, the trainers will also be
able to deliver consultancy services and provide a wide range of advice
to members, based on their experience. Read more |
Letter to President Erdogan: Threat to Academic freedom in Turkey
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 EI/ETUCE
and ESU are appalled and dismayed by the recent terrifying reports on
the official reactions to the action of more than thousand academics
who signed an open call for peace. In that petition, the scholars had
criticized the Turkish government for its exceptionally harsh approach
taken in the Kurdish region in South-East Turkey. The Turkish Higher
Education and Research representatives asked the government to end the
ongoing violence and to resume negotiations on the peace process with
the Kurds. Read more |
| Publish your work in ESU Student Voice |
 We
are looking for ideas from students across Europe and the globe to be
published in the monthly newsletter "The Student
Voice". Participants are asked to write a short essay on
the topic of international cooperation in student rights. The
winning article will be published in ESU's newsletter "The Student
Voice" which is distributed to EU policy-makers, academia, students and
various stakeholders in higher education. Read more |
Kick-Off ot the new project on Quality of Career Services in Higher Education
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 In
2016 ESU, together with its partners, started to work on a new
project: Quality Assurance of Career Services in Higher Education
(QAREER). At the end of January participating organizations met in
Bucharest to discuss the activities scheduled for upcoming months. Read more |
PASCL: Final Conference on Student-Centred Learning
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The last event to be organised during the project lifetime is
planned to take place in Brussels with a targeted participation of
around 60 people, mainly relevant stakeholders, policy and decision
makers at European and national level, but also representatives of
students and HEI staff.
The aim of the 2-day Final Conference is to present the
final outcomes of the project and the plans for further developments,
inviting the participants to become active supporters of PASCL tool for a
higher qualitative education in Europe. Awards
ceremony will be organised to give recognition to the best practises
identified in implementing SCL/ excellence in teaching. ESU,
as hosting organisation will coordinate the preparations and the event
organising phases, with the support of all the members of the
consortium, especially CEU which has experience in organizing such
awards Read more |
Join the final Seminar of the EUROGRADUATE Feasibility Study
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 The
final Seminar of the EUROGRADUATE Feasibility Study will take place on
15th March 2016 in Berlin. The seminar is open to all those interested
in the prospects for a European graduate study, including researchers,
decision makers, HE professionals, and stakeholder organisations in the
field of HE. During the event, participants will have the opportunity to
get involved, among others, in workshops to interactively discuss the
recommendations of the EUROGRADUATE feasibility study.
Further information on the programme, registration, and practicalities are available atwww.eurograduate.eu Should you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via [email protected]
Deadline for registration is Monday, 29th February 2016 Read more |
ESU joined new EU-funded project BizMOOC
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 On
the 1st of January 2016, the new European-wide Knowledge Alliance,
BizMOOC took off and is set to run over a period of 3 years. This
project tackles the European challenge of enabling businesses, labour
force and HEIs to increase their activities and exploitation of the MOOC
potential.
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SYL: Want to stay, but forced to leave
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 In
what light do international students and youth see Finland? Racism is
present every day and asylum seekers fear fire bomb strikes. To get
even an interview when applying for a job, you often need to be fluent
in Finnish and have a Finnish-sounding name. The bureaucracy is
difficult to master Read more |
SRVS: Slovak Teachers on Strike
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 Elementary
and high school teachers have said a resolute "NO" and decided to
start a fight for better education in Slovakia. Even though their
requests have not been responded to, their courage to begin an active
strike made an impact. By organizing a variety of activities like
Babysitting Day, the teachers pointed out that they are often being
misperceived as babysitters. Read more |
SAMOK: Finnish Higher Education Institutes introduce tuition fees to non-EU/EEA students
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 On
14th of December 2015 the government of Finland made the decision to
require higher education institutions (HEIs) to introduce tuition fees
for non-EU/EEA students. The amount that the HEI have to collect starts
from 1500 euros per year, but institutes can choose to have higher
fees. The HEIs can collect fees from the beginning of 2016, but must do
so by 1.8.2017. The HEIs must have a scholarship scheme for non-EU/EEA
students in place to be allowed to charge fees. Read more |
A greeting from National union of university students in Finland SYL
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2015 was an eventful year for students. As we are all well aware of,
the Finnish Government decided on cutbacks for several hundred million
euro in education, and we are still waiting to see what the
consequences will be. Year 2016 promises to be as eventful. This is the
year is when what was decided last year will be implemented. In
addition, there are other substantial long term development processes
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ESU in the Press
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Upcoming Events
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Below is a list of projects ESU is participating in as a Partner or Team Leader.
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