Start the new school year is the perfect time to elaborate
on what is waiting for the students and the students movement in higher
education.
Today, the European student movement must fight to protect their guiding principles and foundations - namely, that higher education, and should be considered a public good and a public responsibility.
The reader who is familiar with the ideas and goals of higher education might say, "but the principles we talk about common sense and what the government is aiming for" I'd have to answer that, unfortunately, this is not the case. - And there are indications that the decision-makers who do not believe in these principles are becoming extinct.
Today, the European student movement must fight to protect their guiding principles and foundations - namely, that higher education, and should be considered a public good and a public responsibility.
The reader who is familiar with the ideas and goals of higher education might say, "but the principles we talk about common sense and what the government is aiming for" I'd have to answer that, unfortunately, this is not the case. - And there are indications that the decision-makers who do not believe in these principles are becoming extinct.
Problems with funding and student support
One thing is obvious. The financing of higher education will be an even bigger problem than before. The countries are cutting public funding for higher education - how the funds awarded to universities and students they have.
This automatically means that students will have to take a larger share in the financing of education and that will have a more difficult access and fulfillment.
Students will therefore have to be the voice of reason, because when decision makers say they want to get their country out of the crisis and at the same time cut funding for higher education, it is as if they want to cure the patient's heart cut out.
The second issue is related to student aid, which is directly connected with the access and completion rates of higher education.
It seems as if the country does not want a more educated people, because they started to limit, reduce or otherwise make the conditions for current and future students up.
Students do not think it was reasonable or viable to demand that they take on more credit and debt to pay for their education, bearing in mind that the financial crisis was caused mainly subprime mortgages.
We will continue to fight for higher education that is public, even if the damage to the tank or submarine - or a cow, if we talk about the European Union (EU).
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