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In Oporto, the students are not silent

In recent years there have been many millions that the successive governments PS, PSD and CDS cut in higher education. In the last government were 320 million less. This worsened the conditions of higher education institutions and hampers the access of students to their constitutional right to study.

 

These institutions, for lack of funds, fail their students and are required to reduce the number of faculty and staff, to close courses and failing to ensure services such as the cafeteria, residence, libraries and study rooms with conditions. The award of scholarships is highly bureaucratized and is generally the minimum scholarship that is far from covering all costs related to the frequency of Higher Education.

 

Doing against these policies, students from various colleges Port organized themselves, denounced the problems and claimed their resolution and their rights, having already achieved some victories.

 

In ESE (School of Education), after a process of continuous fighting, the canteen shall be open later, allowing post-employment regime of students to dinner. There will also be works in space.

 

At FEUP (Faculty of Engineering of Porto) and FCUP (Faculty of the University of Porto Sciences, is being organized a petition demanding quality meals and a lower share price, in addition to more material and human conditions in canteens.

 

The Faculty (Faculty of Arts, University of Porto), there was a petition that had about 650 signatures for the extension of library hours as well as the improvement of your repository, accompanied by a concentration of students in the 4 November.

 

In ESAD (School of Arts and Design), is being collected a petition against the lack of ventilation in classrooms. This process already has a big win: works in rooms with the possibility of placing air conditioning.

 

The Catholic University of Porto in the psychology department, students are collecting a petition against the lack of material conditions of its class.

 

Private University Fernando Pessoa, stems from a petition with marked concentration due to the absence of internships.

 

This whole process of struggle is being successful and being made remarkable progress by students in claiming their rights thus bringing great motivation to all those who daily fight for a Public Higher Education system, free, democratic and Of Quality.

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New attacks on Higher Education

The beginning of the school year 2015/2016 was marked by more attacks on higher education and the persistence of the same problems, which, in general, arise and fall in the process of privatization and gentrification of this level of education. The increased costs to enter the higher education and the failure of Social Action are a reflection of the lack of funding in higher education institutions and the transfer of that responsibility to the families.

 
Examples are many:

 
Students of the Faculty of Law of Lisbon were faced with the implementation of a registration fee of € 203, the additional amount of the fees. Last year the value of this rate was € 18. This increase was carried out on the backs of students, not having the School Council (a body to which students are represented) been consulted.

 
The Faculty of Human Kinetics (FMH) were required for students € 80 for prerequisites necessary for its entry in this college.

 
The Faculty of Social and Human Sciences were implemented in interest fees, increasing the value of these every day of delay in payment, preventing struggling students pay tuition fees later, and preventing them from enrolling in the 2nd half if the 1st half of the fees are not paid.

 
The Institute of Lisbon (IPL) the value of the social dish rose to € 2.90 when purchased the meal the same day.

 
Students of the School of Social and Political Sciences studying after work lack of chairs in classrooms, which disrupts the normal functioning of classes.

 
In addition to the attacks carried out in the various colleges, the academic year also began with problems in university residences of Social Services, University of Lisbon (SASUL): the rise of each bed at € 10 and the pull out beds, which, although justifiable since they were in hazardous locations, they were not replaced.

 
For all of these costs, it is unaffordable for many further education.

 
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It is time to fight! – From north to south college students expressed themselves
To all the attacks on the right to study in public higher education, quality and free opposes the struggle of the students. On November 26, students from Porto, Lisbon, Vila Real, Braga, Bragança, Almada, Aveiro, Algarve, Coimbra and Évora, responding to the call of various structures and student associations, organized denunciation actions and protest around issues like the lack of pedagogical conditions the result of shortcomings in the teaching and non-teaching, as well as in infrastructure and other materials; tuition, fees and charges; insufficient and successively delayed scholarships; early school leaving and the thousands who are forced to work or borrow to continue to study.

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Secondary School Alfredo da Silva

On the 5th October, the roofs of Secondary School Alfredo da Silva, in Barreiro, flew due to the strong wind that was felt, but this fact was not unconnected with the state of degradation and insecurity in which they found themselves. For this reason, classes were suspended until 15, to return to be suspended on the 19th, a result of over a fall from a roof.

 

On 20 October 2015, the students of this school, together with other educational community (teachers, staff and parents) took to the streets by the requirement of roadworks at school, the replacement of roofs that fell, the safety assurance students and the resumption of classes.

 

Adding to the roof of the problem persist serious material problems in the infrastructure, which needs immediate intervention by the Ministry of Education. Problems ranging from the deterioration of the gym roof, the windows, the constant flooding in winter, the result of infiltration, the baths have no waste disposal capacity, lack of goals, a patio that just have gravel and where several students have fallen, the lack of warming that causes many students come to the blanket of school.

 

As a result of the protest held on 20 October – and he joined in front of the Ministry of Education in Lisbon over two hundred students, as well as parents, teachers and staff – the students of Alfredo da Silva High School saw the works in roofs of their school to perform. However, the fight can not and must not stop here, because the school still needs to fund works to resolve the remaining issues, safeguarding these students may have decent study and safe school.