subject: Student Unions. Their Importance for the Educational System [print this page] Student UnionsStudent Unions. Their Importance for the Educational System
Student unions are created for various aims, and most of them presuppose the protection of student rights, if discrimination has been noticed. On one hand, this activity is quite useful, but whether it promotes the development of the educational system is doubted. Affirmative action may be regarded as one of the brightest results of student union activity. It presupposes that entrance examination commission is obliged to observe the quote of entering Afro-American, Asian, Hispanic, and Muslim students while accepting entrance exams. It automatically means that students will be accepted on the basis of their race, but not knowledge and skills, required for college or university education. Importance for the Education in General Which results of student union activity are more useful for the educational process? On the one hand, if a student is discriminated by a tutor, student union will help to sue and achieve righteousness. Thus, it may be regarded as a stimulus for other students to pass the exams emphasizing their ethnicity. On the other hand, if the union fails to protect the rights and "dignity" of a student, he or she will study the subject, and answer any examinational question. Hence, it will be the stimulus for others study with diligence. The useful aspects of union activity are as follows: They unite students in accordance with their interests, and stimulate the spread of the news in educational sphere. Achievements of the student unions are regarded as the instances of educational system development, though these achievements are aimed at protecting students' rights. The necessity in student unions indicates the necessity to improve the educational system, or, unions point out the demerits and imperfections of the system. Student unions help to evolve the educational system by offering innovations and struggling against conservative elements.
