Impact of the Crisis on Higher Education: Student Demand
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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..?