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Sat, May 26 2012
University students in protest against high tuition fees
Photo: Krassimir Yuskesseliev
Students from Sofia University and other higher education institutes will protest against a hike in tuition fees of up to 20 per cent, youth foundation Priziv reported.
Slogans such as "university is not a market" and "we are not buyers" will figure in the campaign which is calling for the total abolition of all tuition fees.
The University of World and National Economy in Sofia, Plovdiv university, Rousse University and Sofia University have increased their semester fees by between five and 20 per cent in 2011. Sofia University humanities' students will have to pay a semester fee of 500 leva, compared to 462 leva before.
The Priziv youth foundation said that in times of economic crisis, any increased pressure on education is dangerous and should be avoided.
Bulgaria should hear university students' voices and support them, organisers said.
An as yet undisclosed "artistic" demonstration will apparently feature in the protests.
Slogans such as "university is not a market" and "we are not buyers" will figure in the campaign which is calling for the total abolition of all tuition fees.
The University of World and National Economy in Sofia, Plovdiv university, Rousse University and Sofia University have increased their semester fees by between five and 20 per cent in 2011. Sofia University humanities' students will have to pay a semester fee of 500 leva, compared to 462 leva before.
The Priziv youth foundation said that in times of economic crisis, any increased pressure on education is dangerous and should be avoided.
Bulgaria should hear university students' voices and support them, organisers said.
An as yet undisclosed "artistic" demonstration will apparently feature in the protests.
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By hiking tuition fees you are not helping the less privileged to acquire education, rather you are destroying their dream of becoming a promising child from a poor families like the Romas and poor foreigners living in Bulgaria. For God sake,what the hell is going on in that country. I don't get it. Minimum wages is 240 lv, does that mean poor parents will never send their kids to university. This is ridiculous. How will people not steal after you have destroy their only hope to become something in the future. There is no money in Bulgaria, yet it can [...]
Read the full comment afford to produce uncountable nunbers of billionairs. Everyone in the government including those from other parties are wadded and live comfortably. But how? I think this country is pretending to be poor by not doing anything to help its poor citizens out of missery. Estonia and Lithuania for instance were in war for independent when Bulgaria was already a democratic nation 20 years ago, these two Baltic nations joined the EU and the Schengen bloc before Bulgaria. This is a shame. A child born 20 years ago in Bulgaria is now an adult,he has nothing to show for his or her age except that he is grown grey hair out of stress and continue to depend on grandparents pension of shame. The case is different from those from wealthy parents who have embezled public and state fund. A kind of ARAB uprising is needed in Bulgaria since nothing seems to be working.