 9th April: The European Students' Union (ESU) and the Student Higher Education Council of the Slovak Republic (SRVS) to announce their forthcoming seminar(from 6th-8th May) on equity in higher education. ‘Now for real – Equity in Higher Education’ will be the launch event of ESU’s «Equity From A Students’ Perspective» project run by ESU in cooperation with its’ partners Scienter and Menon as well as the National Unions of Students from Austria, Romania, Slovakia and Estonia.
The importance of equity in Higher Education has been increasingly outlined in the recent discussions about educational and related political and social reforms. In the Bologna Process, the social dimension has been integrated as one of the priorities towards 2009 whilst different stakeholders have raised the question of equity within the Lisbon agenda - be it the students or the European commission in their 2006 communication entitled «equity and efficiency». Increasing equity within higher education has been recognized as the main priority for the development of European higher education post-2010.
A great number of minority groups are still not fairly represented within the student body and are therefore unable to reach the highest levels of Education. Students experience first hand the barriers to entering and completing Higher Education and are the obvious group to claim their place in this debate.
This seminar intends to train student representatives to implement policies which will increase equity and efficiency in their own HEIs and countries. Existing and new research on increasing the equity in Higher Education will be published at this event and hence disseminated on all levels of student representation.
The main aims of this conference are the following:
- Discuss the outcome of the equity project research group with stakeholders and national student representatives
- Obtain an overview of the current situation of how equity is ensured in Higher Education and how it can be improved
- Understand the connection between Higher Education structures and equity and debate the financial responsibility within Higher Education
- Train student representatives from across Europe to improve equity in the Higher Education system and institutions.
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