Student has just begun the fight back against austerity

What is the beginning of a new year is a good time for students and student movements of the practice in higher education.

Today, the European leader in the student movement to protect the foundation of its principles and to fight for - namely, that higher education should be considered a public good and a public responsibility.

. A reader who is ideas and higher education, the goals might say, this is not the case I would have to answer sadly, "but you do talk to the principles of common sense and what the purpose of all governments" - and there are indications that the decision-makers who do not believe in these principles There are discontinued.

Funding problems and Basque

One thing is obvious. The financing of higher education will be an even bigger problem than before. Funds allocated to the universities and their students - Countries cutting public funding for higher education.

Automatically means that the student will have to take a bigger share of the financing of education, and that's the time to fill it even harder to access.

Students, therefore, to be the voice of reason for the decision-makers said their countries out of the crisis and at the same time they want to cut off funds for higher education, it's as if they want to cut out the heart of a patient's healing.

The second concerns the issue of student support, which is directly linked to access and completion rates in higher education.

If the country is not as it seems really to have more educated, cut or other ways to limit the current and future students are beginning to make conditions worse.

Students do not believe that it is both reasonable and sustainable loans and take on more debt to pay for their education, especially considering that the financial crisis was caused by subprime mortgages in the request.

Or a cow, we have the European Union (EU) if we are talking about - to the larger public, that the expense of a tank or submarine, and we will continue to fight for education.

A dream can come true?

A large part of the Bologna process has been in limbo in recent years, countries do not much care, as they did at home with pay. Some things still remain to be done, starting with the revision of the European standards and guidelines.

The European Students' Union, or ESU, participates actively in this process. The Social Dimension Working Group, Ireland and the ESU, is working hard under the co-chair, to expand access to higher education and access to higher education for underprivileged groups committed to open communications with countries in Bologna.

Will soon show you how to make the country better data, data collection and peer learning through initiatives such as PL4SD Euro student and we need to do.

The EU is an important element in the work of the ESU. European elections in May 2014, one of our goals is to affect the political parties aware of how to make the EU's higher education.

The EU does not have much capacity in higher education, but that is, among other things, Erasmus + and, among other publications reform agenda to grow programs.

Their departure seems co modification and higher education system, the labor market and the economy as a service aimed at an increased understanding of the perspective of the students even harder to try to bring them into the political process, and, therefore, will be deemed to have higher education, as a public good and a public responsibility.

Student mobility in Europe will have to face are also growing concern. You can also improve the opportunities for students across Europe because it was taking into account the differences in English.

Europe, a European Higher Education Area, where students in their new knowledge and experience, and not just be motivated by the desire to establish better conditions for funding If you want to, countries will have to commit to their mobile Basque nation.

ESU Today, a mobility pact, where the mobility of the financing will be based on solidarity between the countries is working on a proposal. It will soon be reached, the European Court of Justice, as recent cases have shown, they will be a compromise.

Finally, our most important task is to stop the austerity mania, and in some sense to be included in the European decision-makers.

As always, we will be loud and do whatever is needed to ensure that the future is ours - a future where education is not a cost, and in which children can dare to dream of a higher education or robbing a bank without repaying the next 30 years of their loans.

Yes, we dare to dream that it is still possible.

* Rook Primozic chair of the European Students' Union in 2013-14, representing 47 national unions of students from 39 countries.