Times Higher Education (THE) will open soon its second African summit at the University of Ghana in Legon. The theme is Globalisation and Policy Directions and the topics include “public and private universities, funding and fees, leadership and governance, internationalism and collaboration and intra-continental staff movement.” In advance of the summit THE has issued a list of the top 15 African universities. More...
Between 2nd and 8th May 2016, the sections of Erasmus Student Network (ESN) will organise volunteering activities that have a social impact under the umbrella of SocialErasmus Week Spring 2016, a biannual celebration of the SocialErasmus project. More...This weekend, between May 5-8, hundreds of international students from all over Europe will meet in Milan to compete in three different sports - futsal, basketball and volleyball. However, there is a catch: they are not there to represent their home country but the country of their Erasmus exchange. All of them hope to make their host country proud but only so many will succeed. More...
Peer Learning Initiative for the Social Dimension (PL4SD) was a three-year project (2012-2015) funded by the European Commission through the Lifelong Learning Programme (Erasmus Multilateral projects).
The objective of the PL4SD project was to provide policy-makers and practitioners with resources to develop effective measures for ensuring the social dimension of the European Higher Education Area. More...
Quality Procedures in the European higher education area and beyond – Internationalisation of quality assurance agencies: 4th ENQA Survey
The report presents a collection of current features of practice in international activities in external quality assurance. It reflects the priorities formulated by ENQA and ministers of higher education who adopted the Yerevan Communiqué (2015), and the ESG 2015, both of which emphasise mobility and internationalisation.
The European Students' Union recommends joining the next Thematic University-Business Forum in Helsinki, Finland between 2-3 June 2016. This two-day forum offers excellent opportunities for a dialogue between universities, businesses and public sector. The speakers of the forum present innovative and inspiring cases in which they collaborate and promote entrepreneurship and new ways of operating in the transforming world. More...
Between 15th-17th of April 2016 EÜL (The Federation of Estonian Student Union) held a meeting of the National Unions of Students of Nordic and Baltic Countries (NOM) in the university city of Estonia - Tartu. The main topic of the NOM meeting was the quality teaching in Higher Education, and students’ learning skills.
During the official NOM meeting on the 17th of April, the NUSs unanimously passed a resolution, addressing the rise of right-wing extremism using the example of Soldiers of Odin, and condemned the increase of racial discrimination against international students in their countries. More...
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...
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...
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...
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