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Citation
(2001), "Students voice their education concerns", Education + Training, Vol. 43 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/et.2001.00443bab.015
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2001, MCB UP Limited
Students voice their education concerns
Students voice their education concerns
Keywords: Students, Conferences
Greater support and financial aid for student mobility and more power for students within the European bodies responsible for higher education were among the desires expressed at the first European students' conference, held in Paris. The event, organized by the European Students' Information Bureau, brought together 300 delegates from 40 European student unions. The students said reforms should ensure that being able to study or train in another European country was no longer restricted to the elite. The current Erasmus scholarships, which provide 100 euros a month for students on foreign placements, were too low for students to be able to make use of them regardless of their social background. French prime minister Lionel Jospin told the conference that students had "a decisive role to play in promoting a stronger and more human Europe".