Global access to higher education should be a priority

Increasing access to retire the old giants is starting to move. The next generation, promotion and dissemination of post-secondary education as an opportunity to take responsibility for a universal public good, such as social responsibility and inalienable human right time to get an education.

Two major events in the international study recently proved that the student movement is ready and able to take on the challenge showed.

Mass phenomenon in Europe's elite franchise moved higher over the past year, organizations and governments radically change their statistics are hard to accept. However, access to higher education in the upper and middle levels of society still largely remains something.

The next step - in a universal higher education - governments, institutions and leaders of the imagination, vision and, most importantly, it requires courage. Simply put, other than the ability to act as elite institutions, and governments can no longer let them.

The main events in Thailand and Canada

during September and October, the remarkable alignment between their results and their sense of purpose of the participants, was held on the opposite side of the world.

Asia-Europe Foundation - Thailand, Chiang Mai, and the third Asia-Europe Training Workshop "Beyond the higher education community, high academic Benchmark" was organized around the theme. Shortly after, Montreal, Canada, the European Access Network, the first World Congress on access to post-secondary education made up.

Log in and support employment and graduates a term used to cover everything from civil duties - Thailand, small and carefully selected group of scientific and industry leaders, researchers and students of Asian and European public excellence "to achieve discuss common problems.

Academic universities in the world rankings by the media give credence to these issues all the more difficult at a time of intense international competition between countries and universities are in front.

We put pressure on them to produce small numbers of skilled graduates and universities in the country to be a leader in social responsibility?

Montreal, global post-secondary education possible for many people around the world as well as in-depth discussions on how to deal with the real prospect of access can be drawn from a much larger movement were meeting. This staggeringly broad agenda of gender equality in higher education for the children and the recurring issue of the science community and recruitment strategies covered issues of financial mechanisms.

Universal need for public support

this is the only effective measure to ensure universal public support for capital, the European Students' Union, or ATB is clear to us. Admission is a virtue of the complexity of financing and incentive system.

But in the minds of non-financial barriers to participation and to ensure that debt aversion is high at the moment - Yes, it can be sent to stretch out some of the objective need for financial support, will receive will mean that education is a universal system.

Until recently, the line was an effective system in Denmark, and now it is trying to move away from that, is not encouraging.

Meetings of the present example are one of the most exciting aspects of student representatives of the organized student movement. Students who are not members of the group may be the most vocal is the only global pressure.

Student representatives from time to talk, he was at the forefront of our minds that we really represent it, but he does not need to represent anyone. This is the most obvious access to education, training, international or their quality, so it is on most issues.

Excel in their social responsibilities the state has an obligation to make sure that the power and quality of higher education in Thailand, and the United States are interested in Consider the case of commercial, private universities, hard-nosed, compared with corporate motivation.

Only grade-point conscious image taken and the name of the only two feeder schools - - for generations to pursue higher education sector has become the hallmark of such discrimination as a universal experience why?

Time for bravery access

Higher education has changed. This is the age of mass higher education. Soon it will be the age of universal higher education and universities no longer act as if they are still inaccessible, and only the elite of the elite bastions ivory tower.

An evidence-based one - somehow cost-sharing futile exercise that will benefit students, the argument is a political and ideological. Elisabeth Genre, vice chairman of the ESU, we cannot afford the luxury of universal higher education trillion defense argument, in short, are spending more in-depth espionage and chemical weapons, is not a political statement.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations - - the world's most interesting to observe the global economic community cooperation projects in the world's most powerful international organizations, regional and global networks of semi-formal coming of age is a work in progress towards the outside ASEAN.

The next World Congress in Malaysia in 2015, takes place when the Thai sense of responsibility and sense of activism and mobilization of the European Access Network and the entrance will be on the move all the more strong and it is hoped that.

As a badge of honor and idealism are not afraid of the student movement, a charge often used as a label, wears. We are ambitious, idealistic, we are courageous, and we will insist on the future of education is a universal right.

Opening act will be in safe hands.

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