Dear Friends,
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The last two months have seen a flurry of activity at ESU HQ. The current executive committee held their first Board Meeting in such a capacity, we said goodbye to long standing volunteer and later project officer, Anthony Camilleri and student rights were consistently in the news, in ways both positive and negative. The current financial crisis has caused budgetary restraint with knock on consequences for Higher Education funding, to which ESU is of course party. Read more...
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| Disenfranchising Student Rights in Romania
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Students in Romania are being deprived of their democratic right to
vote because of bureaucratic procedures recently imposed by the
Romanian Government. The root of the problem lies in rules requiring
people to be resident for three months in a locality in order to be
eligible to vote, and in the renewal system for temporary residence
permits only taking place once a year. This system means that a high
proportion of students are not considered 'resident' in their centre of
study, and are therefore ineligible to vote. More...
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Taking Bologna Towards 2020
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As the current phase of the Bologna Process comes to an end in 2010, attention is focusing on how to continue the reform process into the next decade. With a view to making its views felt at the key decision-making forum of the Ministerial Conference in Leuven, Belgium, in April 2009, ESU has just launched a new policy paper to provide an analysis of the progress so far, and to outline the student perspective on the key priorities for the next stage.
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