Higher schooling is concerning more than profession

Education has come to be understood only as an economic good and not a tool for social development. Rate markets were down after instrumentalist approach that looks at education purely as an economic resource for the good and prosperity.

This approach education industry focused initially applied to vocational education and training. In the 1990s this approach extends to higher education, neoliberals, in which economic growth is considered the only way to maintain prosperity caught.

Industry-oriented education is an approach to teaching, learning and assessment, which takes care of the needs of industry, ignoring the many goals of higher education as a public good and a public responsibility, which reflects the needs of society as a whole. Favors standardization and not harmonize the different education systems.

In this context, higher education is seen as a knowledge industry, universities, service providers and students as consumers of education and human capital for the labor market. This approach reduces people to numbers and customers.

European Students' Union, or ESU, believes that this is contrary to fundamental social values ​​and norms attributed to higher education to deal with it as a commodity and students as consumers who buy this service. This contradicts the approaches that Member States have agreed to in the European Higher Education Area communiqués.

European area of ​​skills and qualifications or EASQ, one of the last steps towards completion of the project of a single European market, as stated in the document of origin issued for public comment.

It is worth remembering that the single market is a free trade zone, which includes more than one nation, based on mutual consent, to allow free movement of capital, labor, goods and services.

Although internationalization can be seen as part of a political strategy leading to economic progress, enhancing competitiveness and innovation, it is important to underline that internationalization is not the leader of the commoditization of higher education.

Ultimately, the prevailing political discourse is misleading, if we want to understand the concept of employability and resolving differences of employment: "Employability is defined as a process of learning and achievement of students and the potential to obtain work, make sure that the concept is not to be confused with the actual acquisition of work - although the concept and the environment are highly interdependent, "as my colleague and I wrote a recent article in University World News.