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European youth and student organisations are concerned after poverty and education targets seem to have been dropped from the European Union's discussion on the 'Europe 2020 Strategy for sustainable growth and jobs' and urge EU leaders to include these targets back when the European Council meets again to discuss the Strategy in June.

"We are worried to see important benchmarks for more quality education and the fight against poverty left out," says Tine Radinja, President of the European Youth Forum. "Without concrete targets in these fields, a sustainable growth and jobs strategy is of little use to make Europe smarter and more inclusive."

Manifesto

The world is moving to a new rhythm. To be at the forefront of this new world, Europe needs to become more creative and innovative. To be creative means to imagine something that didn’t exist before and to look for new solutions and forms. To be innovative means to introduce change in society and in the economy. Design activities transform ideas into value and link creativity to innovation.

In order to progress, Europe needs increased investment – both private and public – in knowledge. Moving ahead with wisdom requires respect for history and the cultural heritage. New knowledge builds upon historical knowledge, and most innovations are new combinations of what is already there. Culture, with its respect for individual and collective memory, is important to maintaining a sense of direction in the current context of restless change.

UNESCO: Education a priority for new DG

Irina Bokova, Director General-elect of UNESCO and its first woman head, has said her priorities will be education, Africa and gender equality when she takes over on 15 November, 2009.

In her first public comments since her election, Bokova, 57, from Bulgaria, who was her country's former ambassador to the UN in New York and is currently ambassador to France, said the education of women and girls was a particular concern, and not just formal education but general access to information and knowledge.

These were areas where "Unesco can deliver more", she said during a press conference following her confirmation by the Unesco general conference in Paris on 17 October.

Unesco is the lead UN agency monitoring and reporting on the Education For All or EFA programme, part of the Millennium Development Goals.

Nico Rausch, 2008

The role of media in transition to democracy is discussed various times. Generally scholars agree that media plays a role next to other factors like parliaments, executives, political parties and elections. There are various different opinions about the importance of this role. Generally we must see media in the context of civil society.

A strong civil society can help transitions get started, resist reversals, help to push transitions to their completion, help consolidate and help to deepen the democracy“... “Interests and values of civil society are the major generators of political society” (Linz & Stepan 1996: 9).

Academic fraudulence

The representatives of student unions of Lithuania are striving to find ways to smash the corruption in higher education institutions. Though it is hard to say at what scope the corruption is spread in the system however, according to some experts the situation is getting worse. In a broad sense the corruption is called not only the bribes to the professors in order to get better evaluation during the exams, but also purchases of the thesis or papers and cribs. The latter case, according to the experts, should be better called “academic fraud”.

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