OBESSU Policy Paper on Education Funding and Student Welfare
Education cannot claim to be free when students are quietly paying for it every day, through transport, meals, materials, housing, and the social acti...
OBESSU Policy Paper on Early School Leaving
Early school leaving is not a personal failure: it is a systemic one. Across Europe, nearly one in ten young people between 18 and 24 leaves education...
OBESSU Policy Paper on Minority Rights
OBESSU recognises that linguistic and ethnic minority students are too often invisible in the systems that are meant to serve them, from missing textb...
OBESSU Policy Paper “Quality of Teaching”
At OBESSU, we believe that a qualified teacher is not automatically a good one. Across Europe, teacher training remains inconsistent, too focused on s...
OBESSU Policy Paper on Student Welfare – Renewed in 2020
Student welfare is a precondition to education, not an add-on. A student who cannot afford a meal, who faces discrimination in the hallways, or who ha...
OBESSU Policy Paper “Refugee and Migrant Rights in Education: A School Students Perspective”
At OBESSU, we fundamentally believe that the right to education belongs to every young person, regardless of where they were born, what documents they...
OBESSU Policy Paper “Innovation in Education: The School Students Perspective”
European schools are still largely using 20th century methods to teach to 21st century students. Learner-centred approaches, digital tools, and practi...
