State reacts to resistance!
For more than one week students have been massively resisting a hike in tuition fees at Chittagong University (CU) in Bangladesh. It began with a few hundred demonstrating on July 26th and culminated into a whole movement involving students from various institutions in Chittagong, the second largest city in Bangladesh with about 3.7 mio people.
Students at Chittagong University hit back - Protests are spreading!
Thousands of students successfully protested against the introduction of Value Added Tax (VAT) in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh on July 26th. The introduction was revoked.
About 2000 students took to the streets of Dhaka (Bangladesh), mostly from private universities (e.g. North South University, East West University, American International University of Bangladesh, Brac University and Dhaka International University), to protest against the governments decision to charge a Value Added Tax (VAT) of 4.5% to the tuition fees. In Bangladesh about 23% of students attend private universities. But keep in mind that by far not all are students who would want to study.
More than 1500 students (out of 2000) joined a walkout at the University of the Philippines in Baguio to protest against tuition hikes and for a sufficient state funding of public education.
The following report ended up in my inbox today:
Protests against Fee increases at the University of Prishtina
July 15th:
More than 2000 students joined a protest at the University of Kelaniya in Sri Lanka against the increasing privatisation of education and budget cuts for higher education.
Source: dailymirror.lk
After the University of Vienna closed down the last squatted Hall (AULA AM CAMPUS), our activity is focusing on the European-wide DAY OF ACTION ON JUNE 9 (and 16), 2010, with a WORKING GROUP active on creating a European-/World-wide AUTONOMOUS LEFT-WING UNIVERSITY NETWORK.
Based on a host of "ALTERNATIVE LECTURES & SEMINARS" which germinated from the ALTERNATIVE SUMMIT AGAINST THE BOLOGNA SUMMIT (VIENNA, March 11 - 14), we are convinced that such a network makes sense and is feasible to develop: The objectives are clear & simple:
National Education Day in Indonesia
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