No matter what the weather is like, desperate students protested against the educational laws in Budapest. This time organized by Hallgatói Hálózat (Student's Network), a demonstration, a march. Would-be and already university students (finally) stood up for their rights - our rights - and said no to the changes in the higher education system: dramatic cut on frame numbers, doubling and tripling of tuition fees, abolishment of government support. What's coming next is what remained unknown.
I I took half of the article from politics.hu about a previous protest:
"Students’ union HOOK has turned to the European Commission over Hungary’s new higher education laws, chairman David Nagy told a gathering of demonstrating students in Budapest on Wednesday evening.
Nagy said that a clause in the new laws requiring students who receive state financing for their courses to stay in the country for some years for work is “no solution to the problem of brain drain”. He told a group of about 200 gathered in central Deak ter that the solution would be creating work conditions and wages on par with the rest of Europe and restoring the prestige of knowledge and getting a degree. He said students demand that the government reverse recent drastic cuts in certain areas of study based on professional considerations. He mentioned economics and law as two areas which unjustly took the brunt of the cuts. He cited Hungary’s basic rights ombudsman as saying recently that applicants’ rights were seriously violated over the past few months and pushing the deadline for applications forward did not help this."
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I I took half of the article from politics.hu about a previous protest:
"Students’ union HOOK has turned to the European Commission over Hungary’s new higher education laws, chairman David Nagy told a gathering of demonstrating students in Budapest on Wednesday evening.
Nagy said that a clause in the new laws requiring students who receive state financing for their courses to stay in the country for some years for work is “no solution to the problem of brain drain”. He told a group of about 200 gathered in central Deak ter that the solution would be creating work conditions and wages on par with the rest of Europe and restoring the prestige of knowledge and getting a degree. He said students demand that the government reverse recent drastic cuts in certain areas of study based on professional considerations. He mentioned economics and law as two areas which unjustly took the brunt of the cuts. He cited Hungary’s basic rights ombudsman as saying recently that applicants’ rights were seriously violated over the past few months and pushing the deadline for applications forward did not help this."
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