Category: AGIT

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Curricular changes in Medical harm students!

With the new academic year, the Faculty of Medicine opened a new curriculum that takes rights to students while they impinge teaching duties.

 

In certain chairs one 6th grader starts to receive in their teaching periods a student of the 2nd year (in some cases even more), which have to teach medical practice skills without any payment or preparation, and on a mandatory basis, with weight in the final evaluation stage. This “newness” is part of the PAAP – Assisted Learning Program Peer.

 

Esta realidade demonstra a falta de condições pedagógicas e ao mesmo tempo dos Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra, que, a rebentar pelas costuras com estudantes e internos, ficam agora mais sobrelotados, criando um ambiente desconfortável para os pacientes e dificultando o trabalho das enfermarias. O PAAP só foi dado a conhecer aos alunos no imediato, recusando-se a faculdade a informar alunos de outros anos, que futuramente vão estar implicados, até ao final do ano lectivo.

 

 

Bolseiros em Coimbra obrigados a cobrar propinas!

 

Outra das novidades é a bolsa em Gestão de Ciência e Tecnologia criada pela Universidade de Coimbra. O objectivo é que sejam os bolseiros a cobrar propinas e taxas em dívida, enquanto se vêem sem contrato de trabalho, sem direito a subsídio de desemprego, de férias ou 13.º mês, sem acesso a uma Segurança Social justa e sem direito a fazer greve. Nesta situação precária, os bolseiros ficam também numa posição de porta-voz da UC no que toca a afastar cada vez mais estudantes do Ensino Superior, usando a propina como barreira de acesso e frequência.

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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.