Students Fest 2010, themed 'Robin Hood', will be held on Saturday and Sunday. Students from different faculties will participate in the show, to which everybody is invited. To buy tickets, visit the KSU office or log on to www.ticketline.com.mt.

French-speaking day

The University's Department of French, in collaboration with La Petite Auberge de France, will join 200 million Francophones in five continents to celebrate the Journée de la Francophonie on Tuesday at 2.30 p.m. at Erin Serracino Inglott Hall, under the patronage of the French, Belgian and Tunisian ambassadors.

The programme will feature a short scene from Albert Camus' play Le Malentendu, followed by three short quizzes.

European Student Summit

Following the European Student Summit held from March 7 to 12 in Vienna, Austria, the European Students' Union (ESU), representing 11 million students, said it believes the Bologna process has reached some of its goals, but is far from reaching the aim of building a functional European Higher Education Area by 2010.

A follow-up to the Lisbon Strategy has recently been launched under the theme of 'Europe 2020'. In both processes, ESU believes this is a critical point. Unless concrete and immediate action is taken, the tension between the two processes will increase, obstructing both from reaching their distinct aims. The ESU said the Bologna Process should be the foundation for EU initiatives on higher education, thereby avoiding the creation of parallel conflicting agendas.

"It is only through the full commitment of both governments and stakeholders that students can hope for the establishment of an European Higher Education Area."