Equity in Higher Education from a Student Perspective

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Equity in Higher Education from a Student
Perspective

• An introduction to the project
• Anthony F. Camilleri
• ESU Project Officer

Student Seminar on Equity in Higher Education
Slovakia, 6th May 2008
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Objectives

• Collecting existing research
• Developing creative policy solutions
• Building Training Courses
• Setting up an e-learning platform
• Increasing equity and efficiency

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Relevant Statistics

• Duration 2 years
• Total Budget 420,000 EUR
• 6,650 staff hours
• c. 25 volunteers involved
• 24 multi-national meetings
• 300 participants
• 5 participating countries

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The Partners

• ESU (Coordinating / lead partner)
• OeH Austrian NUS
• ANOSR Romanian NUS
• SRVS Slovak NUS
• EUL Estonian NUS
• SCIENTER
• MENON eeig

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Actions

• Research
• Conference
• Development of Training
• Training

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Research / Content Team

• Collecting existing research
• Team of 10 persons working intensively over 2
  months
• Results presented at conference (following
  presentation)

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Conference on Equity in HE

• Organised in collaboration with SRVS
• General Report of conference will be major
  outcome of project
• Topics to be tackled include
• Equity Stocktaking
• Equity Higher Education Structures
• Equity Return of Education

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Development of Trainings

• 7 month process kicking off in May
• Development of e-learning platform will include
• Live learning tools
• Community building tools
• Campaign support tools
• Training support tools
• Activities include
• Training of Trainers ( 16th 20th
  July 2008)
• Pilot Training (December 2008)

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Trainings

• 3 regional trainings in first half of 2009
• Fully reimbursed places for 2 persons per union
• High Quality trainers, with 6 months preparation
• Trainings will take place in
• Romania
• Austria
• Estonia
• Dates to be confirmed 3rd Quarter 2008

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Structures

• Teams formed to deal with each aspect of project
• Content/research team
• Seminar organisation team
• Support team from secretariat EC
• Pool of trainers
• Advisory Board

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Outputs

• General report of Conference
• Student Handbook on Equity in Higher Education
  September 2009
• Dossier of Research on Equity
• E-learning platform
• Pool of Trainers
• Training Materials on Equity in Higher Education

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Exploitation
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THANK YOUGood Luckwith your discussions

• Anthony F. Camilleri
• ESU Project Officer
• anthony_at_esu-online.org

Student Seminar on Equity in Higher Education
Slovakia, 6th May 2008