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My name is Tormis Laanisto and I am a second year PR student of Tallinn University Baltic Film and Media School. i am also the chairman of BFM student council BaFiMe. I am working in the Tallinn University Student Union as a PR specialist so the educational issues are very interesting for me. I am fighting for ability to get the best education I can get and this is one reason I have started this blog.

My point making this blog is not to offend anyone. I will not mention any names and try to make some people look bad in the eyes of the readers. My point is to bring out the problems from the viewpoint of a student. The blog is not to say that things are undone or something like that, it is to help people see what are the problems and to give some solutions to solve problems. I am willing to give a hand solving these problems. My idea is that when I am paying a lot of money for my education I want to get good quality education in return, not just the degree. Comments on my blog are more than welcome, so comment when ever you have something to say to me.

As I also work in Tallinn University Student Union my very big concern is that students of Baltic Film and Media School don't feel like a part of Tallinn University. There was a questionnaire for the freshmen of Tallinn University and so also for the freshmen of BFM. There was a question: When you applied into Tallinn University did you also apply into some other university. There were many answers given. As the last answer there was given a chance to write some other university not listed above and one student wrote BFM. This answer was not given because BFM is part of Tallinn University. In my eyes this is very bad that our students don't actually know where they are.

I can't say that this is only problem of this one student. I read from newspapers all the time some things about BFM but there is not always mentioned that it is TALLINN UNIVERSITY BALTIC FILM AND MEDIA SCHOOL. Why? I don't know the answer.

As I am also part of BFM student council it is subject close to my heart that our students would know that they are students of Tallinn University and also to make sure that new students coming to BFM would also know where they are entering.