It’s #GirlsinICT Day! 🥳👩💻
Today, we highlight how crucial it is to encourage more girls to choose ICT studies.
📊 EUROSTUDENT 8 data shows: on average, only 1 in 4 ICT students is a woman. There’s hope, though — in 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan, 🇬🇪 Georgia & 🇸🇪 Sweden, women already make up nearly half of ICT students.
Study abroad plans vary widely: students in Azerbaijan, Georgia & Portugal show high interest (12–13% actively planning; 1/3 to 1/2 of hitherto non-mobile students having general intentions). In contrast, in Finland & Lithuania students show low shares in both active planning and general intentions.
📍Does high share of foreign students always mean interaction with them?
📍What attracts incoming students to stay and work in Sweden after graduation?
These are just some of the aspects we talked about at today's ▶️ EUROSTUDENT Talks.
If you missed it, rewatch the episode here 👉 youtu.be/zQ490tpekDg
Thank you for your kind words and for joining us! :)
Across countries, 18% of students would NOT be able to pay for an unexpected required major expense ❌️
International students assess their ability to pay for an unexpected major expense even worse than their domestic fellow students.
⏳ One week to go!
Join the EUROSTUDENT Talks webinar (April 16) for fresh insights on internationalisation in HE 🌍
We'll get a first look at EUROSTUDENT 9 findings from 🇨🇿 Czechia & 🇸🇪 Sweden.
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On EUROSTUDENT av., students studying completely/mostly online spend 30hrs/week on study-related activities. For students taught in person it is 35hrs. The gap comes mostly from time spent on taught studides. It's a trend in nearly every country - biggest gaps: Malta (14 hrs) and Portugal (11 hrs).
Interested in new insights on internationalisation in higher education? 🌍
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Did you know that while about half of students in 🇫🇮 Finland, 🇱🇻 Latvia, and 🇮🇸 Iceland predominantly or entirely attend their courses online, the proportion in 🇭🇷 Croatia, 🇫🇷 France, 🇨🇿 the Czech Republic, 🇩🇰 Denmark, 🇦🇹 Austria, and 🇵🇹 Portugal is less than 10%?
Why do students work?
Across #EUROSTUDENT countries:
👉️ 70% say covering living costs is a key motive;
👉️ 69% want to afford extra things;
👉️ 59% work to gain labour market experience;
👉️ 48% to afford studying;
👉️ 26% to support others financially.
In most #EUROSTUDENT countries, the share of BA students living in student accommodation has decreased between E:V and E:8.
In 37% of countries — incl. Sweden, Norway, Ireland, France, Denmark, Austria & Croatia — dorm use increased, though less strongly.
Denmark saw the largest rise (+15 pp).
It's the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination!
#EUROSTUDENT survey shows that 22% of students report experiencing discrimination during their studies, most often due to gender & age.
On av., 2% have experienced discrimination based on their skin colour.
#FightRacism
On cross-country average, 8% of students have interrupted their studies (officially or unofficially).
Long interruptions (>2 years) are especially common in 🇬🇪 Georgia, 🇸🇪 Sweden, 🇮🇸 Iceland, 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan, 🇦🇹 Austria, and 🇵🇹 Portugal (≥20% of interrupters).
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!
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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%.