UPDATE-1,500 students protest tuition fees in Budapest torchlight demonstration (number up to 3,500-
Posted on 18 October 2007
Organisers noted that similar albeit smaller protests had already been held in 12 other cities and towns. Norbert Miskolczi, chair of the National Conference of Student Authorities, said students had been proposing alternatives to the education ministry for over a year, but had not been heard. Therefore, they were now demanding the minister’s resignation, he added. Miskolczi called tuition fees a tax on students, saying that it penalised all students.
Earlier in the day, the education ministry announced that it was ready to discuss alternative ways of assessing tuition fees, which students said was just foot-dragging.
Karoly Manherz, a senior official at the ministry invited members of the Higher Education Round Table to meet on Thursday, to discuss a student proposal, which he added, could not be accepted because it was punitive. The student proposals called for students who sign up for a subject but do not complete the course to have to pay for it.
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UPDATE-1,500 students protest tuition fees in Budapest torchlight demonstration (number up to 3,500-
Posted on 18 October 2007
Organisers noted that similar albeit smaller protests had already been held in 12 other cities and towns. Norbert Miskolczi, chair of the National Conference of Student Authorities, said students had been proposing alternatives to the education ministry for over a year, but had not been heard. Therefore, they were now demanding the minister’s resignation, he added. Miskolczi called tuition fees a tax on students, saying that it penalised all students.
Earlier in the day, the education ministry announced that it was ready to discuss alternative ways of assessing tuition fees, which students said was just foot-dragging.
Karoly Manherz, a senior official at the ministry invited members of the Higher Education Round Table to meet on Thursday, to discuss a student proposal, which he added, could not be accepted because it was punitive. The student proposals called for students who sign up for a subject but do not complete the course to have to pay for it.
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