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German medical students head for Latvian university
Just under half of the 500 foreign medical students currently enrolled at Riga’s Stradina University come from Germany – but a medical education in a foreign country doesn’t come cheap
bologna process, germany, riga, latvia, medicine, students, university
Question of the week: if the euro dies, will Europe go with it?
Everyone's talking about saving the euro - but is money really the only thing holding us together? That's this week's theme on Europa plus, cafebabel.com's project with German TV channel ZDF. Four young Europeans tell us what they think: add your two (euro) cents at here before Thursday 29 September!
bologna process, russian federation, united nations, palestine occupied territory, european union, euro
Book review Germany: 'degree Facebook internship' generation
Generation X became generation Y and the ‘internship generation’ is a recurring topic. However, whichever letters or titles are selected for it, no one can really get a hold on us. Can we really all be lumped together, technically-speaking, in terms of a generation? German writers Manuel J. Hartung and Cosima Schmitt asked themselves this question in a 2010 book analysing the difficult future of a generation with no name
bologna process, germany, precarity, eurogeneration, books, students, youth
Unions, strikes and snow: Europe's 12 days of christmas discontent
Is spreading the misery really the best way to get what we want? Inspired by the British High Court banning British Airways’ cabin crew's decision to take twelve festive days of industrial action, we take a look at the latest glut of stars and strikes to hit Europe
bologna process, economical crisis, christmas, germany, financial crisis, opinion, aeroplane
Free movement of French and Dutch foreign veterinary, medical students in Belgium
A huge amount of foreigners study two of Europe’s seven officially regulated subjects in Belgium, but its foreign student population of 6.3%, the seventh highest in Europe in 2006, is not heterogenous. Insight
bologna process, belgium, medicina, veterinary medicine, austria, veterinaria, students
German students swoop down on Austrian universities
In some border university towns, the student population is as high as 12%, as German students escape the various clauses in their own universities and enrol 'abroad' for subjects like medicine and psychology. A common tongue and the abolition of tuition fees are the fundamental attractions
bologna process, psychology, germany, medicina, medicine, austria, facoltà
Seville: Cuba, communists and anticapitalists for the elections!
Spotlight on the epicentre of southern Spain, whose ruling socialist-communist government leans more towards Cuba than Europe. In the land of the mileuristas - so-called '1000 euros a month-ers' - the rude gap is being bridged with an increasingly politically alternative feeling before the European elections in June 2009
bologna process, olivier besancenot, monarchy, david miliband, communism, franco, skills
65% of European students want free university
In Germany, students are threatening to strike. In France, certain universities are blocked for the long term. The question of end of year exams is looming. ‘Students and the further education reform?’ - perilous survey by the European commission
Education: Bologna process, sales time in French universities
France is infuriated. The resentment felt towards the Bologna process, aggravated by the repercussions of the economic crisis, has driven students to go on a general strike as a demonstration of their 'anti-privatisation' feelings. They fear that their future is going 'at reduced prices'. We test the water in Clermont Ferrand
bologna process, auvergne, cities, research and innovation, eudebate2009, professeurs, cities
Bologna Process: French universities react
At the end of 2008, Spanish, Italian and Greek universities showed their discontent. In 2009 it is France’s turn to denounce the consequences of the Bologna Process, which recommended a more hierarchical ‘management’ of universities. A professor explains why
bologna process, opinion, school, expresso, professor, protest, professeurs
Unpopular Bologna process for Budapest’s class of 2009
The accords making European higher education compatible reached Hungarian universities in 2006. A sociology student at Budapest Corvinus University describes the trying experience of the new system which celebrated ten years on 25 May
Hands off Greek universities!
The Greek government has approved a series of reforms intended to modernise its university system, including the opening of private institutions and placing a limit on the maximum study period. However, the students are protesting
bologna process, ukraine, greece, athens, europe, university, education system
Don't fear the Polish plumber
Integration must happen in-situ, with your neighbours - not with Brussels, says Slovak Ján Figel', European Commissioner for Education, Training and Culture
bologna process, life-long learning, culture, ján figel, brain drain, central and eastern europe, european commission
Branislav Djordjevic: 'We don’t know what Europe wants from us Serbs'
On January 21 2007, Serbia sees its first general elections since the new democratic constitution was approved in October last year. The big parties are favourites to win in a country that seems unsure of where it’s going
bologna process, war, slobodan milosevic, balkans, nationalism, enlargement, ratko mladić
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