These include such things as the right to free speech and association, to due process, equality, autonomy, safety and privacy, and accountability in contracts and advertising, which regulate the treatment of students by teachers and administrators.
Canada, like the United States, has a number of laws and court precedents which regulate higher education and provide student rights.
This article is concerned with students in public institutions, although those in private schools can claim rights under the common law and provincial education Acts.
If and when one is put in place in Canada it is likely that this document will be called a Charter of Student Rights and Freedoms.
In 2011, for instance, Romania put forth an extensive national student bill of rights providing Romanian students with a hundred rights assembled in a clear and easy to access document.
They have unionized, stated their demands both verbally and in writing (sometimes in the form of a proposed student bill of rights), publicized their message and gone on strike.
[7] During the labor movement, workers in the United States, for example, won the right to a 40-hour work week, to a minimum wage, to equal pay for equal work, to be paid on time, to contract rights, for safety standards, a complaint filing process etc.
The ESU has democratically created a proposed student bill of rights they want accepted in legislation at a national and continental level.
These demands include: access to higher education, to student involvement in institutional governance, extracurricular support and curricular quality standards.
There is no way to search their website to determine if they conduct research to gather input form students across the nation.