impact of the crisis on higher education: student demand
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Impact of the Crisis on Higher Education: Student Demand. The European Students’ Union on the crisis in Higher Education Bert Vandenkendelaere Member of the Executive Committee of the European Students’ Union Copenhagen Business School, OECD Conference 29 th - 30 th of June 2009. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Impact of the Crisis on Higher Impact of the Crisis on Higher Education: Student DemandEducation: Student Demand
The European Students’ Union on the crisis in Higher Education
Bert VandenkendelaereMember of the Executive Committee of the European Students’ UnionCopenhagen Business School, OECD Conference29th - 30th of June 2009
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Over 11 millions students in Europe!•47 members•38 countries
Surveys in summer and fall of our member organizations on the impact of the crisis on Higher Education in their countries
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Examples of problems for students
•Latvia : budget cut of 60 %•Budget cuts in Italy, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland
•Iceland : grants don’t meet living expenses
•Belgium : less job opportunities for students
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ESU not in crisis
•Same goals, same tasks•Only intensified•Educational, social, cultural and economic
interests of students
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Priorities
•Higher education as a public good and a public responsibility
•Equal access to qualitative education•Social lever•Education as a human right
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Mobility
•A mirror of the diversity of the student body
•Mobility of students, teachers, researchers and administrative staff
•Bologna With Student Eyes 2009
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Mobility – BWSE 2009
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Mobility : grants and scholarshipsGrants and scholarships should be
•Flexible•Transferrable •Given before the mobility period
20 % by 2020?!
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Lifelong learning
•Sufficient funding needed•Leuven Communiqué 2009•Diversification of allocation of public
funding
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Plan of work of ESU
•Survey for member organizations•Social dimension during times of crisis
•Win a nobel prize..?