Tormis is back :)

I got out of army and am back again. I hope to be able to continue writing about educational problems in Tallinn University Baltic Film and Media School. If you readers have opinions about it let me know and I'll try to cover these.

Enjoy summer

Podcast

This is my first podcast ever. It is talking about Tallinn University Student Union and Baltic Film and Media School student council.

This will be my last post before going to army in July. I'll try to keep posting as soon as I get back from there. Until then "Be Active"

Enjoy:)



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Thank You!

I just wanted to say thank you to all for coming to the party. At first I was expecting about 20 people :) but there was much more and we are very glad for that.

Hope you all enjoyed the party as well and I hope you all will have a good time during the summer.

One thing I would like to let you guys know is that I am not the chairman of the student council anymore. It is Karl Hallik now and he is the one who is ready to lidten your problems and solve them. I am probably going to army in July so I'll see you as soon as I get out of there.

Have a nice summer!

Spring Party

As exam session is starting and students need some kind of relaxation, Baltic Film and Media School student council is organizing a party on 29th of May. The party will take place in Tallinn University Language Building address Narva mnt. 29 in the lobby.

Party will start at 1900 and end around 0200. It ends at 0200 because we need to clean the house before next day.

Every student and teacher from BFM is very welcome there. Everything is for free. Also we are giving gifts to all who come there. Some drinks and some food is also there. Special needs need to be taken care of by your own :)

More information about the party will be available in next few days.

See you there and don't forget to relax as well.

Elections for the new board of BFM Student Council BaFiMe

Announcement for BFM students!!

It's May again, and Baltic Film and Media School student council BaFiMe announces the elections for the new board.
The term of office for the new council board will last from June 1st 2008 - May 31st 2009.Every student from our college can apply for the post of chairman, vice chairman for development, and vice chairman for public politics.The application and motivational letter must be sent to the chaiman in print (leave it at the Media chair secretary's office), and electronically to the current board (bfm@esindus.ee)

Tips for a good motivational letter (in Estonian, sorry), are found here!
It does not have to be a long letter, it should be short and concrete.

The elections will take place on May 27th, the deadline for applications is May 25th.

The elections are held at 18:00 at the BaFiMe room (ground floor, next to the reception at Sütiste tee 21)

You are all expected to come listen and ask questions during elections.
I will also add the tasks for every board member.

Chairman:
- Co-ordinating and leading the student council Finance
- Communication and co-operation with the Student Union and academic unit
- External relationships (other student councils and student unions from within
and outside Estonia)
- Information (home page, bulletin boards, mail lists etc)
- Representatives (council of the academic unit, and commissions
at the Student Union assembly)
- Motivational system within the student council
- Taking part in the assembly's economic commission.

Vice chairman for public politics:
- Co-ordinating the work of the tutors in the academic unit plus schoolings
(course president, tutors, etc)
- Assuring the quality of thesis tutelage
- Co-ordinating practical administration with the academic unit
- Promoting student science
- Dealing with the study and social problems of students with special needs
- Mobility
- Forwarding the information about study allowances
- Representatives for the commission of study allowances and the councils for curricula
- Taking part in the assembly's politics commission

Vice chairman for development:
- Developing the curriculum, incl. feedback
- Running and keeping the documentation system
- Symbolics, incl. advertisement
- Cultural events
- Creating a feeling of communion within the academic unit
- Taking part in the assembly's development commission

PS! If any questions arise, please send them to tormis.laanisto@gmail.com

Student Spring Days 2008

This year Student Spring Days took place from 21. april to 24. april. There were lots of great events where students could have gone to and have a lot of fun.

I would like to start with the opening parade. There were present a lot of students and I'm glad to announce that again Tallinn University was best present. There were a lot of TLU students and a lot of TLU college caps. We ruled the parade again. After the parade there was night singing festival where all these students together sang known Estonian national songs.

On tuesday BFM Student council took part of CARDBOARD MACHINE DESTRUCTION DERBY, which was so great event. We built a great Ferrari car and then went to the start. Everything was great until third meter of the race when we crashed with others and broke our ride totally. But we managed to get to the finish line and finish third. Though actual winner was not the team that first reached the finish line but the team which made most show and rammed most. And the winner was..... "Camera F1" from TLU BFM. Jeeeee...

After that students moved on to probably the most popular event of Student Days and it is Peda Folk. This was a very great party and I'm quite sure that all the people that came there were satisfied.

On other days there were a lot more great events but I won't go in detail describing those.

Link to read more about Student Days: Tudengipäevad

So thats it for now.
I'm sad that there were so few from BFM taking part of the Days but at least those who did know that it was great fun.

BFM will be homeless from autumn 2009?

Is it fair that one University gets most of money given to Estonian education from Europe? I don't think so. But this has happened and because of that from autumn 2009 Tallinn University Baltic Film and Media School will be homeless. Tallinn University applied for some money to be able to buy a house for BFM and Tallinn University Art Institute. Decision makers though decided not to give the money and now BFM has reached a situation where it will be left homeless because it doesn't have the money to buy a house and Estonian government won't also give it.

Those people who decide where the money goes told that they will give huge amount of money to Estonian Art Academy which is going to build a brand new house for as I have heard 700 million kroons. So they will get that money and then they will build the house so that BFM will get rooms in that house as well, but the house will be ready around 2013, but what will happen to BFM during those 4 years? Well nothing, BFM students will get their education under trees.

THe house that BFM would buy if they would get the money is in first place much cheaper and second the house is already built and so BFM could move in time so that it would not be homeless for years. The house would be Estonian Film Center where Estonian films can be done and also the students would get a chance to work with real professionals who have worked in the field for years. But no, Estonian politicians have decided other. If Estonian politicians will keep playing with that school this way Estonia will end up losing something very good. If this school will happen to get more and better support abroad I wouldn't be surprised if ti would move away from Estonia and who will loose then? Estonia.

Sorry that I have written this post so sloppily but I'm just so angry on that situation.

On 15th April at 13:30 there will be a tour to this building what BFM would like to buy. There will be lots of students present there as well and we will keep fighting for our future and we want home no matter what.

This blog is probably most read by my fellow students so I call you all there and lets fight for our house.