Europees HO niet via factuurtjes

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27 januari 2012 | Europese studentenvoorzitter Alan Päll valt oud-HRK-voorman Klaus Landfried bij. Diens visie op een open bekostiging in Europa van de mobiele student en kenniswerker, die hij op ScienceGuide presenteerde, verdient verdere doordenking en uitwerking.

In een Q&A-sessie via social media over heel Europareageerde Päll als volgt op het betoog van de oud-voorzitter van de HRK, deVSNU/HBO-raad van Duitsland: “I think it is high time to discussthat. We know that current system on relying on EU funding and thenhaving a lot of free movers is not working. Governments have theright to choose their HE policy. But it would be common sense notto build strains on systems and discrimination for students.”

“I am not fully convinced of the proposals in detail, but thekey element is that we should set a deadline of reaching anagreement how to fund mobility in a way that is indeed fairer andmore sustainable for all of us. I agree we need commonly sharedsolutions, but simple monetary transfer does not necessarily makesense since that would mean that we could measure exactly whichcountry got the most out of educating someone. And that is toonationalist in my view.”

“Since we do hope that education will contribute to later livesand wellbeing and working life of graduates and we do want themalso to move around. That is why I am favour of a European MobilityTreaty that would centralise some funding or as an alternative,would enable credits to be swapped or traded between HE systems orinstitutions.”

Een uitgebreid interview van ScienceGuide met AllanPäll over het HO-beleid in Europa, Halbe Zijlstra en de zorgelijkesituatie in het neonationalistische Hongarije leest u hier. Zijn recente essay over bekostiging encollegegelden in de EU, ‘Students: Cash cows or a nation’s asset?’,leest u hier op ScienceGuide.