Another two slots of intense checking of #EUROSTUDENT data and coding done together with @ihs.ac.at & @joriscuppen.bsky.social ✅ It was a pleasure to have researchers from 🇬🇪, 🇮🇸, 🇦🇿, 🇭🇺, 🇮🇪, 🇲🇹, 🇩🇰, 🇸🇪 & 🇩🇪 over this week for data delivery seminars at IHS in Vienna. Thank you all & have a safe way home! 👋

One week to go until we can celebrate #WAHED25 with a special EUROSTUDENT Talks focusing on students with disabilities. Sign up and join the conversation on building a more inclusive higher education! ✍️ tinyurl.com/2ymnhxpe

Although educational background is considered a key determinant of 🌍 international student mobility (ISM), it is worth taking a broader look at how migration background, income structure, parental prosperity, field of study, and HEI characteristics shape ISM participation. Have a browse below!

Registration is now open for #WAHED25 Conference! Join us for FREE on 28 Oct at @uwconline.bsky.social or online. Hear from speakers from @oecd-ocde.bsky.social @luminafoundation.bsky.social & more. 🎟️Register now: wahed-conference-2025.eventbrite.co.uk

Celebrate #WAHED25 with a special @eurostudent.bsky.social Talks webinar on disability inclusion in higher education in Europe! Speakers from across Europe will share insights & innovations in student support. 📅 23 October 🔗 Join here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #HigherEd #DisabilitySupport

There’s growing awareness around the mental health challenges students face. #WorldMentalHealthDay is a great chance to discuss is even more. For doing it in evidence-based way, #EUROSTUDENT can provide you with some data: 👉https://rb.gy/g0acbj 👉https://rb.gy/avrl5s

As part of October’s World Access to Higher Education Day, we invite you to join a special edition of EUROSTUDENT Talks on October 23, focusing on students with disabilities in higher education. Register 👉 tinyurl.com/2ymnhxpe

Across EUROSTUDENT countries, 26% of students face an accommodation cost overburden. International students report it even more often than domestic ones. The burden is also heavier for those relying on public student support. Also, students w. financial difficulties are far more likely to struggle.

Our 🇸🇪 Swedish colleagues at UHR have published two interesting reports based on E:8 results. Take a look! 👉 How international master's students in Sweden experience their studies: tinyurl.com/4vps99h7 👉 Study environment in shortage occupation programmes with gender imbalances: tinyurl.com/2vppe29d

When looking at students' time budget, 🇱🇻 Latvian and 🇵🇱 Polish students top the charts, spending 54 hours/week on study & work — compared to just 41 hours in 🇫🇷 France. On average, part-time students clock 10 more hours weekly than full-timers, mostly due to working nearly 3× as much (32h vs 11h).

Older students = happier students? According to the EUROSTUDENT 8 data, students aged 30+ report the highest well-being scores (avg. 56 points) vs. 50 points for younger peers. Read more 👉 🔗 tinyurl.com/rdndxpak

Did you know that students in the fields of 🧑‍🏫 Education as well as 💼 Business, Administration & Law more often engage in part-time, distance, or online studies compared to those in other subject groups? Not surprisingly, 💻 ICT students especially stand out with high levels of online learning.

Can you imagine a more scenic place for intensively checking #EUROSTUDENT data and coding together with @ihs.ac.at & @joriscuppen.bsky.social? Researchers from 🇨🇾, 🇵🇱, 🇸🇰, 🇨🇿, 🇫🇮, 🇳🇴, 🇭🇷 & 🇱🇹 met this week for data delivery seminars in Altes Kloster in 🇦🇹Hainburg. Thanks for all the participants! 👋

Last #EUROSTUDENTTalks was advertised with an extra short notice, but the recording is available you if you couldn't make it! 🤩 youtu.be/4ICZyHJFCq0 If you missed it, rewatch now to see how young people are the driving force behind innovation to ensure the resilience of HE & society as a whole 🇺🇦🌻

💸 🫰 Working students earn a median of 811 PPS/month (PPS: Purchasing Power Standard), but income varies widely across the countries — it's highest in 🇲🇹 Malta, lowest in 🇩🇰 Denmark. In most countries, male students earn more than female students: partly due to working about an hour more per week.

EUROSTUDENT Talks is back from the summer break!👋 Come join the webinar on 18.09. With student representatives Viktoriia Hermanchuk & Volodymyr Sydiaha we'll dicuss how has the war in 🇺🇦 Ukraine shaped HE and what can we learn from it when it comes to resilience & adaptation. Sign up 👉 rb.gy/yd70yr

Young students and those relying on public support are more likely to live in student housing. Especially in the Netherlands, Slovakia & the Czech Republic, many students dependent on public support live in dorms. Students who regard themselves as ‘workers’ live in student accommodation less often.

Across all E:8 countries, 1/3 of students with 👶 have a youngest child under the age of 6. Most of the young children under 6 can be found in Denmark, Germany, Finland, Iceland, Austria & Switzerland and particularly in Azerbaijan & Georgia, where the share is more than 80%. 🧐 tinyurl.com/2zbred8z

🧑‍💼 ➡️ 🧑‍🎓 Did you know that in 🇮🇸 Iceland (62%), 🇩🇰 Denmark (52%), and 🇸🇪 Sweden (49%), many students arrive at university with serious work experience (1+ year, 20+ hrs/week)?

23% of all students report a (very) negative impact of the COVID-19 on the financing of their studies. The share ranges from a bit more than 10% in Lithuania to more than 33% in Portugal. Most students reported no or even positive impact, but remember that these results don't include dropouts.

▪️ Older students (30+) are less likely to study abroad. ▪️ PhD-granting unis send more students abroad. New EHESO report (based on #EHESO & #EUROSTUDENT data from 23 countries) explores how age, family background & uni type affect access to international study opportunities. 👉 tinyurl.com/45ktsuu4

Across Europe, students’ well-being drops as parental financial status declines. 🟢 “Very well-off” parents → avg. well-being score: 57 🔴 “Not at all well-off” → 42 This trend holds in nearly every EUROSTUDENT country. Read more: rb.gy/wpmwtq

EUROSTUDENT data shows that there's a great variance in the share of delayed transition students between different countries. The highest share of them can be found in Finland (34%), followed by Sweden & Iceland. The smallest shares of the group occur in France & Georgia. More 👉 tinyurl.com/4myj5xjx

Did you know that women are more likely than men to come from non-tertiary educated families in all EUROSTUDENT countries except 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan, 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇩🇰 Denmark, 🇮🇪 Ireland, and 🇲🇹 Malta? And that domestic students more often come from non-tertiary educated families than international students?

♿ On average, 21% of students in EUROSTUDENT countries indicate being at least somewhat limited by a disability in their daily life. At least a quarter of students indicate a disability limiting to daily life in 🇫🇮 Finland, 🇨🇿 the Czech Republic, 🇸🇪 Sweden, 🇮🇸 Iceland, and 🇩🇰 Denmark.

🎓✈️ Studying abroad? 64% of students get full credit for temporary enrolments — but internships lag at just 44%. Big gaps by country: 🇫🇮 Finland leads on internship credit (86%), while 🇭🇷 Croatia & 🇬🇪 Georgia lag behind (~20%); 🇭🇺 Hungary: only 40% full recognition for studies abroad

In EUROSTUDENT, Purchasing Power Standard (PPS) is used as a common aritificial currency. 1 PPS = same value basket in all EU-27 states, cutting out exchange rate & price level noise. Below, accommodation costs in PPS are shown by form of housing for students not living with their parents 👇

Students who perceive themselves to be 'workers' study less but hustle more: 📚 They spend just 69% of the study time that ‘student’-students do. ⏱️ But with jobs added, their total weekly workload (studying and working together) is 13% higher.

Study modes differ between different types of HEIs. 🎓 Non-unis lean into part-time & online learning. 🏫 Public HEIs lead in part-time, but lag in online formats. 💻 Fewer staff = more distance learning. 🏛️ More research = less flexible formats. 🖋️ Specialised HEIs = more online/part-time options.

Did you know that, on average, students in all countries most often report experiencing financial obstacles for studying abroad (57%), followed by social (30%), motivational (26%) and practical obstacles (22%)? However, each obstacle shows great variation between countries. More: shorturl.at/pRXRW

As you know #EUROSTUDENTTalks are currently on a summer break 🏖️ , but if you have missed any of our previous episodes, they're still all worthwhile rewatching! Check it out before our new season starting in September! 🔗 www.eurostudent.eu/talks

Around 1 in 5 students see themselves more as ‘workers’ than ‘students’ — and it’s 1 in 3 among those from less well-off families. This trend shows up across all the EUROSTUDENT countries, except 🇩🇰 Denmark.

Students living with parents have the longest commuting time to get from home to their HEI (cross-country median: 45 min). Students who live away from parents spend, on cross-country median, less than half as much time on their commute 🚶 🚌

Every country has a Standard Minimum Access Requirement (SMAR) for entering HE. Vast majorities access HE through a standard access qualification. However, 8 to 5% percent of students in 🇲🇹 Malta, 🇮🇸 Iceland, 🇨🇭 Switzerland, 🇮🇪 Ireland, & 🇩🇪 Germany have made use of a non-standard access qualification.

It is saddening that more than twice as many students with disabilities report discrimination experiences compared to their counterparts w/o disabilities (37% vs. 18%). Read more on how discrimination experiences vary across countries & what kinds of bias and hostility students report: rb.gy/6luo7v

💸 On av., 76% of students get family/partner support, making up 52% of their income. Nordic countries, Austria, Ireland & Malta have lower shares of students receiving support and lower income from family contributions. In contrast, in some countries students rely more heavily on family support.

💰 Students’ perception of their family’s financial status is closely linked to their parents’ education level. 44% of students with tertiary-educated parents say they come from well-off families — more than double compared to 21% from non-tertiary backgrounds.

🎓 Who goes to university? In 🇮🇸 Iceland, 43% of students are 30+, showing a strong presence of mature learners. 🇫🇮 Finland (34%) and 🇳🇴 Norway (30%) follow closely. Meanwhile, younger students dominate in 🇵🇹 Portugal, 🇫🇷 France, and 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan — with 53–77% aged 21 or under.

EUROSTUDENT Talks is taking a summer break in July & August! 🏖️ 😎 We’ll be back in autumn with new episodes. Until then, catch up on all past webinars here: www.eurostudent.eu/talks #EUROSTUDENT #HigherEd #WebinarSeries #SummerBreak

Not all student mobility is the same! Did you know that 🇳🇴 Norwegian students tend to go abroad for enrolment, 🇦🇹 Austrian students focus more on internships, and 🇱🇹 Lithuanian & 🇱🇻 Latvian students often choose other types of stays abroad?

Did you know that when we look on public support to HE in Germany and zoom in on the public support to private households, remarkable 47% indirect cash support goes to student parents? It's one of the intriguing findings we heared today at #EUROSTUDENTTalks with Christoph Gwosc being our speaker.

The development of relative 🏘️ accommodation costs of students living away from parents over the last four rounds of #EUROSTUDENT is shown here for selected countries. Though limited in scope, these trends reflect the broader patterns across all #EUROSTUDENT countries.

Don't forget that the last #EUROSTUDENTTalks before summer break is live already next week! See you on June 12 👋 Register here 👉 rb.gy/u1bzer

Kristina Hauschildt, lead of the EUROSTUDENT project emphasised at a seminar organised by WAHEN that cross-sectoral collaboration is needed because many of the issues that students face are something that can't be solved by HE policy-makers alone. 🔗 www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

👨‍🎓 Do students who work while studying reduce their personal free time or does working come at the expense of their study time? Here you can see the trade-off between study time and time spent on working.

📍 The next #EUROSTUDENTTalks coming on June 12 📍 Higher education funding systems can be quite complex in their design; sometimes even to such an extent that it's hard to identify the sources & recipients of funding. At Talks, we'll dig deeper with Germany as an example. Register 👉 rb.gy/u1bzer

Certain higher education institution types tend to be socially selected. For example, the more research-intensive the HEI (as approximated here by doctoral student enrolment), the higher the proportion of students from well-off and tertiary educated parental backgrounds.

EUROSTUDENT 9 Policy Workshop happening today and tomorrow in Brussels! ☀️ So many bright people from different countries diving into the power of cross-sectoral policy-making in higher education. What are the barriers and what could be the solutions?

Did you know that 59% of the students in the EUROSTUDENT countries work during the lecture period, the majority during the whole semester? The share of working students varies from 28% in 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan to 77% in 🇳🇱 the Netherlands.

Today's EUROSTUDENT Talks was full of lively discussion about international student mobility 🤩 The focus was on 🇸🇪Sweden, but the survey results and experiences shared at the webinar are worth checking out for everyone. The recording is available here 👉 youtu.be/hFuATgJ-M1s