A few days ago i was in Den Haag at the Eurostudent 4 kick off meeting (yes, they are continuing the good work). They asked me to give a speech on the relevance of the social dimension. But writing that speech was more difficult then i imagened. Difficult because i find it self-evident. And also because i was feeling realy bad the day i planned to write the speech. But after i while i found some inspiration, mainly from ESU policy papers. And as some people told me they liked it, i’ll just share it with my audience here as well.
The European Students’ Union (ESU) is the umbrella organisation of 49 national unions of students from 38 countries and through these members represents over 11 million students. The aim of ESU is to represent and promote the educational, social, economic and cultural interests of students at a European level towards all relevant bodies. One of our main goals is fighting for a social dimension.
So when I read the title of this panel, I thought it would be easy to prepare this speech. But is was not so easy. Because as students, we consider the relevance of the social dimension to be self-evident. Education is a right not a privilege. And that statement should not need argumentation. And indeed, we often get support for this goal. But still, reality shows, Eurostudent data shows, that it is not self-evident. Verder lezen ‘relevance of the social dimension’
