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.
