At today's Talks we discussed inclusive distance HE in the global South and North.
Distance education has strong potential to support Education for All & inclusive learning, but it still only partially succeeds, making it an important area for further research.
▶️ Rewatching: youtu.be/f53WS2UPA9A
Students with disabilities face greater financial hardship.
Across #EUROSTUDENT countries, 37% report (very) serious financial problems — above average in every country.
Among students without disabilities, the cross-country average is 23%.
In the European Higher Education Area, most students come from tertiary-educated families:
▪️ 52% have at least one parent with a Bachelor’s, Master’s or Doctoral degree, and 7% with ISCED 5 (short-cycle)
▪️ 41% have no parent with tertiary education.
Dedicated EUROSTUDENT researchers from 🇱🇻, 🇱🇹, 🇷🇴, 🇮🇹, 🇵🇹 & 🇳🇱 — all entering E:9 field phase this semester — still had the energy after our Researchers’ Forum in Malta to join a preparatory seminar with @ihs.ac.at & @joriscuppen.bsky.social.
Thanks to all participants & good luck with the field phase! 👋
🌍🎓 Our next webinar is just one week away!
On March 12, Irina Haury from @fernunihagen.bsky.social will share insights from her dissertation project on the future of inclusive distance higher education by 2050.
Don’t miss the discussion and join the Talks!
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Sharing some highlights from the EUROSTUDENT Researchers’ Forum in Malta 🇲🇹
Thanks for the inspiring discussions, knowledge exchange & cross-national learning!
Special thanks to Jan Höhne (@jkhoehne.bsky.social) for insights on the next decade of student surveys with AI & data-driven approaches 🙏👋
Did you know that in 🇮🇸 Iceland, 🇳🇴 Norway, 🇱🇻 Latvia & 🇫🇮 Finland, at least 21% of students have children?
Conversely, in 🇨🇭 Switzerland, 🇫🇷 France, 🇳🇱 the Netherlands & 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan, no more than 5% of students have a child.
What will inclusive distance higher education look like in 2050 and who shapes it? 🌍🎓
On March 12, Irina Haury from @fernunihagen.bsky.social will share insights from her dissertation project, with a focus on the University of South Africa.
Sign yourself up and join the Talks!
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Who goes abroad still depends on family background.
Across all types of international student mobility, students from non-academic households participate less than those from academic families.
At the peak of study abroad (2012–2018): 6% vs 10%.
Today’s #EUROSTUDENTTalks sparked a rich and thought-provoking exchange — thank you to all participants for the insightful contributions! 🙏
🔗 You can now rewatch the full discussion here:
youtu.be/WRFkwicNTZ4
As expected, tuition fees look very different depending on the type of HEI.
▪️ Public HEIs: on average, 42% of students pay fees
▪️ Private HEIs: 87% pay fees
The gap is especially large in 🇵🇱 Poland, 🇸🇰 Slovakia, 🇦🇹 Austria, 🇱🇹 Lithuania, 🇨🇿 The Czech Republic, and 🇪🇪 Estonia (≥60 pp).
📣 Only one week to go!
Join the next #EUROSTUDENTTalks on 19.02:
Why (not) to choose virtual study experiences abroad? Insights from Germany 🇩🇪
Jan Kercher will present 2023/24 BintHo findings on student mobility and international experience.
Register & join us!
✍️👉 shorturl.at/iYTvf
Architecture & Town Planning students spend about 54 hours a week on study + paid work — the highest of all fields.
Language students are at the other end, with 41 hours.
🌍 Virtual study experiences abroad — why (not)?
At next EUROSTUDENT Talks (19.02) Jan Kercher (DAAD) presents new findings from the 2023/24 BintHo survey (conducted in 132 🇩🇪German universities) on student mobility and international experience.
Join us!
Register here 👉 shorturl.at/iYTvf
🇮🇹 Welcome back, Italy, to #EUROSTUDENT!
Big thanks to Lavinia Monti and her colleagues at the Ministry, the great national research team, and representatives of HEIs and students for the fruitful meetings in Rome and online. Great to have you back! 🎉
Certain HEI types tend to be socially selected. For example, institutions with very high student–staff ratios tend to have more students from affluent, highly educated families than better-staffed HEIs.
Working during the lecture period leaves students with less time to focus on their studies.
It is often students from not well-off families who have to work.
In 🇲🇹Malta, over 85% of these students have paid jobs; in 🇨🇿the Czech Republic & 🇱🇻Latvia, it is around 80%.
Professor Graeme Atherton & Frances Sit from WAHEN
@worldaccesshe.bsky.social introduced Global Access Map 2 today at the EUROSTUDENT Talks.
Missed it? No worries 👇
🎥 Rewatch: youtu.be/3HRKPbkVhC8
📄 Report itself: shorturl.at/86d8m
#GlobalAccess #HigherEducation #EUROSTUDENT #WAHEN
Did you know that across EUROSTUDENT countries, most students live away from the parental home? Yet living with parents remains the single most common housing type overall (34% on average).
In 🇦🇿Azerbaijan, 🇬🇪Georgia, 🇲🇹Malta, 🇪🇸Spain, most students live with their parents.
📍📣 Only one week to go!
Already next Thursday (22.02) we will discuss findings from the Global Access Map 2 at #EUROSTUDENTTalks. Don't miss it!
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@worldaccesshe.bsky.social
The relationship between access route, HE participation, and student population‘s age structure is intertwined. For example:
🇫🇷 🇨🇿 🇱🇹: early entry, standard routes
🇳🇴 🇩🇪 🇨🇭 🇮🇸: later entry, non-traditional routes
On January 22, EUROSTUDENT Talks welcomes Graeme Atherton (WAHEN) to discuss findings from the Global Access Map 2, covering 200+ countries.
📊 Gender gaps, social inequality & the data challenges behind them.
Sign up 👉 shorturl.at/GuuZJ
@worldaccesshe.bsky.social
Did you know? 📊
According to the #EUROSTUDENT8 data, students in 🇱🇻Latvia, 🇷🇴Romania, and 🇲🇹Malta have relatively high median monthly incomes – over 1400 PPS (Purchasing Power Standard).
New Year’s greetings from the EUROSTUDENT team! 🌟
We’re grateful to our national teams and partners across Europe for their dedication and collaboration.
Here’s to a bright and collaborative 2026! 🎓✨
The largest shares of students indicating that their 👩👩👧👦 family is not very or not at all well-off can be found in 🇷🇴 Romania, 🇮🇪 Ireland, 🇫🇷 France, 🇵🇹 Portugal, and 🇩🇪 Germany, where this is the case for at least a quarter of students.
Happy Holidays from EUROSTUDENT! 🎄 🎁
Wishing all students, researchers, policy-makers, and partners across Europe a peaceful and well-deserved winter break. ❄️
Across the #EUROSTUDENT countries, 22% of students report discrimination experiences during their studies. On average, the most common grounds for discrimination, as perceived by the students themselves, are gender and age, with 8 and 6%, respectively.
While 🇳🇱 the Netherlands show a high proportion of students participating in research or field trips (24%), students in 🇪🇸 Spain, 🇨🇿 the Czech Republic, and 🇨🇭 Switzerland commonly go abroad for language courses (15, 11, and 10%, respectively).
What challenges are students facing — and what do they expect in the year ahead?
We asked student reps from 🇮🇪 🇲🇹 🇱🇹 🇷🇴 during our latest EUROSTUDENT Talks.
Catch the replay 👉 youtu.be/-HBwcnKyfAA
Did you know that 🇫🇮 Finland and 🇸🇪 Sweden have some of the highest tuition fees (1488 & 423 PPS (Purchasing Power Standard) respectively) yet the fewest fee-paying students (≤3%)?
Meanwhile 🇳🇱 the Netherlands, 🇵🇹 Portugal, 🇮🇸 Iceland & 🇨🇭 Switzerland have lower fees but much higher shares of fee-payers.
