The UN General Assembly recognised in 2013 the need to create new ‘educational and academic’ stakeholder group. The European Students’ Union (ESU), the Global Campaign for Education (GCE), Education International (EI) and the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE) have now come together and proposed to the UN that they could be the Organising Partners of this new stakeholder group focused on education. This gives the members of all of our networks a clear route to engaging in the UN processes on the SDGs, and builds on the work that ESU is already undertaking in terms of implementing the SDG4 in Europe. More...
BizMOOC: Take part in the short survey on MOOCs
ESU invites students and student representative to take part in the short survey on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in the framework of BizMOOC project.
The survey is available in the following languages:
English
German
Greek
Polish
Italian
Spanish
Romanian
French
The purpose of this survey is to identify needs, gaps & reasons for learners, businesses and universities to boost their Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) activities. More...
QAREER: Looking for students' opinion on career services at their universities
Under the framwork of QAREER project, ESU is looking for students' opinions on quality of career services and quality of employability. We urge students and student representatives to fill in this short online survey available in English, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Spanish. More...
Call for students for the ESU Quality Assurance Students Experts’ Pool
The Steering Committee of the ESU QA Student Experts’ Pool hereby opens a call for 40 members of the ESU Quality Assurance Student Experts’ Pool. In addition to new recruits, the call is also being issued to current members of the ESU QA Pool, who wish to continue their activities as pool members.
Successful applicants will be included into ESU’s quality assurance experts’ pool until 30th of June 2017. Becoming a member of the pool will give eligibility to be nominated by ESU for quality assurance reviews and trainings, and provide an opportunity to gain more knowledge about quality assurance in Europe. More...
How well are teachers doing in solving problems using ICT?
By Dirk Van Damme. If one were to ask ministers of education what they consider to be the most important factor determining the quality of their education systems, the odds are high that they would refer to the quality of the teaching work force. The saying goes that the quality of an education system can never exceed that of its teachers. More...
Going grey, staying skilled
By Marco Paccagnella. The population is “greying” in most advanced countries as well as in some developing countries. Many governments are struggling to address the challenges resulting from this demographic transition, from rising costs of healthcare, to worries about the sustainability of pension systems. More...
Colombia’s moment of truth
By Andreas Schleicher. Colombia now has an historic opportunity to end one of the world’s longest-running armed conflicts. Will the country be able to seize this chance and realise its huge economic, social and cultural potential? That depends on nothing more than on what happens in Colombia’s classrooms. More...
The Nordic Welfare Model and the Refugee Crisis: Buffer or Weakness?
By Anne Skevik Grødem. Demanding labor markets, high social benefits – many people believe that the universal Nordic welfare states may be less able to face the challenges of migration than other countries. More...
Take the money and run: the uses and abuses of political funding
By Bill Below. There is something ominous in the words ‘money in politics’. It evokes payoffs and payolas, fat cats, power brokers and kingmakers dealing in smoke-filled rooms, deciding the future of people not present. More...