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Students Against Cuts Shake Up the Walls of the University

Post author By Uurika Sofia Laine, Emma Grillo Kajava, and Onni Ahvonen
Post date October 25, 2023

On the 19th of September at 8:00, a group of students marched into the main building of the University of Helsinki and announced that it was now occupied. We, “Students Against Cuts,” are behind this occupation, through which we have made noise about the rights of all students. In occupying the main building of the University of Helsinki, we wished to draw attention to the precarious past, present, and unknown future faced by students, which is being exacerbated by the government’s plans to cut housing allowance and affordable housing and to pursue racist immigration policy.

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Science, Crimea and prison bars: persecution of teachers and researchers

Post author By lefteast
Post date August 17, 2016
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Note from the LeftEast editors: this article first appeared on Commons Journal. It has been reprinted on LeftEast with the permission of the authors. by Viktoriia Muliavka and Alona Liasheva Translated from the Ukrainian by Valentyna Kolesnik. The use of science and education for political purposes in Ukraine has become the norm. How has it […]

Tags academic freedom, academics, censorship, Crimea, education, Russia, Ukraine, university

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Spring has arrived in Macedonia: thousands of pupils and students protest against education policies. An interview with High School Plenum.

23 April 2015, Skopje

Thousands of pupils, students and teachers marched today across the country, in a renewed challenge to governmental education policies. Organised by the High School Plenum, the protest comes two months after the Student Plenum declared victory against reforms in Higher Education on the 24th of February, 3 months after the students’ first march on the […]

Tags capitalism, higher education, Macedonia, neoliberalism, occupation, plenum, protest, protests, strike, student movement, students, teachers, university

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Government policy no longer seeks to prevent the processes of social marginalization in Hungary. An interview with Eszter Neumann.

Post author By Eszter Neumann
Post date April 1, 2015

NGOs Protest School Segregation for Roma Children in Hungary December 18, 2014 • by Hungarian Civil Liberties Union/www.liberties.eu

The Hungarian Government’s steps towards creating a ‘work-based society’ are likely to bring cuts and conceptual reforms in education. Eszter Neumann, in an interview for Fent Es Lent, discussed the social processes behind this policy shift. Fent es Lent: The Hungarian government is preparing serious cuts and conceptual reforms in education. Let’s begin with issues […]

Tags higher education, Hungary, neoliberalism, post-socialism, university

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Reclaiming the True Meaning of ‘Student’ on the Streets of Skopje

Post author By Adela Gjorgjioska
Post date November 21, 2014
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Photo. tweeted by "Revolution News" on November 18

On Monday, the 17th of November, around three thousand students demonstrated on the streets of Skopje. Size-wise, this may appear relatively insignificant. On the same day, 700 km southwards, over 20,000 demonstrators joined a rally in Athens to mark the 41st anniversary of a student uprising against the country’s former dictatorship. The news story on […]

Tags capitalism, Macedonia, neoliberalism, occupation, protests, student movement, students, university

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The neoliberalization of Albanian higher education

Post author By Arlind Qori
Post date May 19, 2014

sources: Modern Ruins contest, www.worth1000.com

One of the last public strongholds to be taken and transformed along neoliberal lines has been higher education. First introduced in Chile, and afterwards in other Latin America countries, these reforms are about to be experimented on even in Albania. Coming from a Stalinist socialist past, since the nineties Albania has been one of the […]

Tags Albania, capitalism, higher education, neoliberalism, reform, student movement, students, university

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A brief look at the Hungarian student movement: “That Was the First Student Assembly in Many Years..”

Post author By admin
Post date June 28, 2013
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Por gladisanarquica Entrevista a Csaba Jelinek, activista y participante del movimiento estudiantil en Budapest, acerca de las movilizaciones sociales que han acontecido en Hungría en el último tiempo, y particularmente lo referente a la participación y organización de las estudiantes. Gladys B. (GLAD) Budapest, Hungary. Puedes descargar la entrevista aquí…+ // Próximamente traducida al castellano The end […]

Tags capitalism, Hungary, neoliberalism, occupation, student movement, students, university