Right of entry to higher education should be a priority

Access movement grow old giants are starting to retire. It is time for the next generation and the promotion of universal higher education as an opportunity to take responsibility for proliferation, the fight for education, a public good, a public liability and as an inalienable human right.

International Education recently shown very clearly in two parts, the student movement is ready and able to take up the challenge.

In recent decades, as the move from the privilege of the elite of European higher education, mass events, organizations and governments to radically change the filter admission statistics. But the access to higher education is still something of the upper and middle echelons of society, largely remains.

The next step - the universal mass of higher education - the imagination, vision and, most importantly, the courage to ask the leaders of institutions and governments. Simply, it is impossible for universities to be able to act as elite institutions, and governments can no longer allow them.

Thailand and important events in Canada

during September and October, the two events held on the opposite side of the world, their results and substantial alignment between the participants a sense of purpose.

Asia, Europe Foundation - Chiang Mai in Thailand, the third Asia Europe Education Workshop with the theme "Beyond Benchmark Academic Society for excellence in higher education" was organized around. Later, Montreal in Canada, the European Access Network World Conference on Access to Secondary Education.

Thailand, academia and small and carefully selected group of industry leaders, researchers and students from Asia and Europe to discuss common challenges' social excellence 'to get - access to and support for all the graduates' employability and civic responsibilities term.

These issues are even more challenging countries and between universities and at the same time, in the face of intense international competition, the strength of the global media give so much academic rankings of universities.

How countries and universities can become leaders of social responsibility in all of the pressure is put on them again to produce graduates with small numbers?

Montreal, with access to a much larger collection are deeply engaged in the global debate on how the world of post-secondary education to as many people as possible, it can become a real focus on it was taken. This staggeringly broad agenda for financial mechanisms and recruitment strategies to deal with the issue of gender equality in society and science for children to be repeated in higher education.

Social support should be universal

clearly the European Students' Union, or ESU, is the only effective measure of universal social care to ensure equity. The complexity of the financing and incentive systems are not virtue admissions.

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Denmark lamentable, until recently the system to be effective in this regard, it will try to move away from that now.

The two days of meetings, representatives of the student movement organized by the students of the present example is one of the strangest. Students may only global pressure group at its voice on behalf of its members who do not have it.

When talking with the students, those at the forefront of our minds, we are not actually representing them, but we need to figure out to whom. This is so, on most issues, education, internationalization, or the quality, of course, access to education.

Consider intriguing universities in Thailand, which is state-mandated obligation and assured quality, they excel in their social responsibilities example, and compare the hard-nosed, private, non-profit universities in the United States with a corporate motivation.

Why universal higher education sector in that it allows for future generations as an attribute of discriminatory practices - Grade-point and image-conscious admissions feeding exclusively name two - continue?

The courage to get access times

higher education has changed. This is the age of mass higher education. Will soon be the age of universal higher education, and universities are no longer need to act if they are still inaccessible, and the ivory tower elite bastion of the elite only.

Not an evidence-based one - to share the cost of the futile argument that students in some way benefit from the exercise of political and ideological one. Elisabeth Genre, ESU's vice chair, said the argument that universal higher education is a luxury we cannot afford even a political statement when trillions of deeper defense, espionage and chemical weapons are expended.

Association of South-East Asian Nations - - economic communities in the world to watch the most exciting global cooperation projects with a regional and global networks to semi-formal to the age of the world's most powerful international organizations, the ongoing work towards the outside ASEAN.

When the next Congress and the World, Malaysia in 2015, it is expected that both Thai sense of responsibility and a sense of activism and mobilization of the European Access Network with access to the more powerful and can do everything.

Student movement is not afraid of idealism and the label is often used as an accusation worn as a badge of pride. We are idealists, we are ambitious, we have to be brave, we insist on the future of education as a universal right.

Access movement will be in safe hands.

* Angus Ó Mao lain equality is the coordinator of the European Students' Union.