Student Press in Europe

COVER: No Global! Conservatives have always had problems with students and universities. Today young feminists and members of non-governmental organisations are protesting against a new wave of Polish conservatism. On this occasion ‘Gazeta Studencka’ interviews Zygmunt Bauman – the top Polish sociologist who talks about threats of globalism.

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AGEISM
Magda is 37. Two years ago her application was rejected by a big concern as she was ‘too old’. Ageism is becoming a new problem of the labour market in Poland.

A few other topics:
> Travels: Welcome to Vietnam…
> Music: Interview with Derrick Green from Sepultura…
> Film: Spanish cinema, Gay films…
> Trends: A new revolution in trends is approaching. If you want to be trendy this spring, be ‘double’. Everything about twins…

Faculty of Health Sciences launched in Pécs

Education of medical assistants
Gábor L. Kovács, dean of the new faculty tells UnivPécs about the education of nurses, professionals in dietetics, general social work, health visitors, physiotherapists. Thank to the recent changing of the structure of the Faculty - establishing the Institutions and Departments, according to the disciplines offered by the campuses -, improving and updating of the syllabuses, the introduction of the ECTS based programme of instruction, the education has been given a higher value.

Where even professors go on foot
UnivPécs takes a look at the toilets and WCs around the university buildings and gets details of the regular checks, the staff that takes care of the cleaning.

- thanks to Ela Kowalska (Gazeta Studencka) our papers writes about the integrated education-management software (USOS) used in most major Polish universites (through SPINE, thank you Dominika)

Tuition fees proposed in Sweden
Students from countries outside of the EEA may have to pay tuition fees to study in Sweden in the future. This is proposed by a governmental investigation with the commission to draw more international students to the country.
Many student organisations have protested against the proposal, since they believe it will stop less wealthy students from coming to Sweden. Also, many fear this is the first step towards tuition fees for all Swedish students.

In addition to this article, we look into the situation in the rest of Europe where tuition fees are common. We interview a German and a British student who both, in vain, fought against fees.

Expensive travels
As a student at Lund University you might have lectures in the adjacent cities of Malmö and Helsingborg. But that does not mean that you get a discount on the train or bus ticket.
A monthly ticket costs 13 percent of the student grant and loan and forces many students to work beside their studies.

With God by their side
They pray for the students to get home safely from the night clubs and serve coffee to drunk students outside of one of the clubs.
But still the Christian students in Lund is an unknown group to the big majority.