Involvement of students in eminence assurance

The Quest for Quality for Students project, managed by the European Students' Union has analyzed the views of students on the quality of higher education and identified areas in which students can become more involved in the process of quality assurance and enhancement.

The research team has worked hard on this project for three years and presented the final outcomes of 31 October 2013. The findings are published in four research publications and one manual that anyone can download for free on the project website.

Quality is a multi-dimensional concept

The debate about the quality of higher education has often been at the forefront of government related this concept to economic indicators, such as the employability of graduates and efficiency.

Right to make use of to senior teaching be obliged to be a global main apprehension

Giants movement approaches grow older and begin to retire. It is time for a new generation to take responsibility for the promotion and expansion of post-secondary education as a universal opportunity, that the battle for education as a public good, public accountability and inalienable human right.

The evidence on the two major events in international education has recently been shown that the student movement is ready and able to take the challenge.

Over the past decade, as higher education in Europe moved from an elite privilege to a mass phenomenon, institutions and government strained to radically change their admissions statistics. However, access to higher education still tends to stay in the upper and middle strata of society something.

The next step - from mass to universal higher education - requires imagination, vision and, most importantly, the courage of the heads of institutions and governments. Simply speaking, the universities can no longer afford to behave as elite institutions and governments can no longer afford them.

A long walk earlier than independence - Education from the immature Mandela

As a young South African I ask you something strange question: Who was the Nelson Mandela? The history I learned that he was the first black president of a democratic South Africa, a martyr who was imprisoned for 27 years, Nobel Peace Prize winners - among many other awards for his great political reform.

[This article was published as a tribute to Nelson Mandela, who died last Thursday. It first appeared in the University World News July 18, 2013]

Often, this knowledge was accompanied by a picture of a gray-haired man in camouflage shirt waving to the crowd to admire; withered man staring from his prison cell on Ruben Island; or the young man in boxing attire with raised fists.

Applications for institution of higher education mass movement referendum

On 9 February 2014, Swiss voters approved a referendum which aims to restrict immigration to Switzerland. Since the measures could be contrary to the principle of free movement of people, which is one of the principles of the European Union, the EU suspended all current negotiations with Switzerland until the situation is resolved.
This decision will have a serious negative impact on students and researchers since Switzerland will no longer be part of the Erasmus + and the Horizon 2020 program for the exchange of students and research funding in the upcoming academic year.
However, more problems for the Swiss higher education community can develop as a result of a referendum, depending on its implementation.
The problems for these programs is going to happen because the negotiations between the EU and Switzerland concerning them are not finished before the referendum was held. The EU made the extension of the free movement of people new EU member states, Croatia is a condition for signing the Erasmus + and the Horizon 2020 contracts.

Advanced education is more than a job

Education has come to be understood solely as an economic good, rather than a tool for social development. Education market determined following an instrumentalist approach that looks at education solely as an economic good and the resources for progress.

This industry-oriented educational approach was initially applied to vocational education and training. During the 1990s, this approach was expanded to higher education as well as neo-liberalism, in which economic growth is considered the only possible way to maintain prosperity grabs.

Industry-oriented education is access to learning, teaching and assessment that caters to the needs of the industry, ignoring the multiple purposes of higher education as a public good and a public responsibility that reflects the needs of society as a whole. It favors standardization than harmonization of the various educational systems.

In this context, higher education is seen as a knowledge industry, higher education institutions as providers and students as consumers of education and human capital for the labor market. This approach reduces the numbers of people and customers.

Why guidance fees for international students will not employment

For several years there have been discussions about setting up scholarships for international students degree in Finland. Developments related to the ongoing trial of tuition for non-EU and EEA students (2010-14) reported University World News several times.

In addition to the trial, during the regime of the current government (2011-15) and the fees are discussed each spring in state negotiations on its borders consumption.

The two main positions focus on export education and taxpayer arguments, but they are based on several misconceptions.

Education exports and 'necessity' compensation

The most commonly used argument in the current debate is based on the concept of 'export education'.

The concept in Finland roughly corresponds to the British concept of transnational education, but is broader in the sense that education exports include all the commercial elements of education, such as teaching content, capacity building, infrastructure and school management and curriculum.

Study in a overseas kingdom - to change the humankind, you be acquainted with the world

Studying abroad is something that everyone should do at a young age. I feel that education abroad experience helps shape people's attitudes about life; helps with opening the mind of other people, cultures and ways of living life.

The opportunity to study abroad - in Italy - came my way through the upward bound initiative at Kent State University. The program works with students like me to our college-ready and increase educational opportunities for students in the first-generation, low-income families.

I was upward Bound student for about five years and I have formed many connections on campus. So when I was told about the possibility of under-served incoming Kent State students to study abroad, I knew it would be a once-in-a-lifetime experience that will be useful for me.

One thing that amazed me is that Italy has such a rich and beautiful culture. While in Florence, I took 'Roman work' class, which tells the influence of the Roman Empire in Europe.