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A new era for Student Voice

In January next year, ESSA will relaunch as "StudentVoice UK", and will have a brand new website and social media pages to go with it.

In the meantime, follow us on Twitter (@studentvoiceuk) and check out our blog at studentvoiceuk.wordpress.com.

ESSA at the OBESSU Summer Camp

ESSA Council Members Mitchell Cox and Katie Rodgers recently attended the annual OBESSU Summer Camp. Read Katie's report below:

Over the 17th-24th August, Mitchell Cox and I took part in the OBESSU summer camp entitled “One World One Care” This was held in Amiens, France. The aim of the summer camp was to join together European school student unions and to gain a common understanding on human rights whilst all learning some new information on the topic.

During the summer school, ESSA ran a workshop to some of the participants of the summer school. This workshop was entitled “Reality”. This workshop was designed to show people how despite what it may appear like, sometimes the harsh reality of human rights in practice is a lot different. The workshop ran for two hours and included videos about the history of human rights and also aspects of participation from the audience such as creating a mindmap of words they though were associated with human rights.

The workshop received very positive feedback from its participants and ESSA are hoping to run ‘Reality’ again in the near future.

Katie Rodgers, ESSA Executive Council Member

ESSA Council Members speak at the Westminster Education Forums’ seminar- ‘GCSE’s and the English Baccalaureate’

On the 30^th June, ESSA Council Members; Shagufta Ghumra and Nabina Ibrahim spoke at the Westminster Education Forums’ event on the new English Baccalaureate. Here, Shagufta writes about her experience.

ESSA was invited to participate in a Westminister Educational Forum upon the subject of the e-bac (the English baccalaureate). On hearing this, I, Shagufta Ghumra put myself forward as it was very relevant to the decisions I am going through being in year 9 and choosing my options. Nabina Ibrahim also spoke at the event with me.

Vocational Voice- VET students claiming our education!

Former ESSA Council Member and Student Support Officer; Jessie Seal has

written a great Blog piece for the OECD on Vocational Education and

Training (VET) and the importance of involving VET students in decision

making in their education. Click here to read the full post.

Update from the ESSA Council!

Mitchell Cox explains the outcomes of ESSA's latest Executive Council meeting...

On the 23rd July ESSA's first Executive Council meeting was held for the new council members you elected this year. Six Council Members attended the meeting with the help of Jessie (ESSA's Student Support Officer) and Hannah (ESSA's New Graduate Trainee) facilitating the meeting.

Overall we had really positive outcomes