Thousands of students from all over Spain seconded this Thursday 12 strikes and demonstrations organized by the Student Assembly against Bologna at 30 cities around the country to return to protest at the European Space of Higher Education and require a plural public debate on the future of the English University. About 25,000
attended university in Barcelona in a demonstration that ended in the Ciutadella campus of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), where some 2,000 thousand young people attending the courtyard. A spokesman for the Coordinator of Student Asmablea (CAE) has explained that the itención is to make a closure at the site until at least next weekend to mark the calendar to organize demonstrations against Bologna and discuss the future university.
In Madrid, the CAE has been estimated at 15,000 persons among high school students, vocational training, university students and faculty came to manifest itself in slogans like "No LOU, or Bologna, or precarious, outside University business. "Shouting" Botin, the college is not for you ", the demonstration ended in front of the Ministry of Education, the Alcalá street. There, a group of about 3,000 students went to Sun and then by Preciados streets and Montera. In Gran Vía, the march was neutralized by a group of riot police, who made several threats of charge and beat some protesters.
Other cities such as Zaragoza and Valencia also received significant events, in which 2,000 university in each rallied in support of the public university. A spokesman for the protesters said that students Zaragoza remain "indefinitely" confinement in the building Interfacultades University of Zaragoza that has already lasted for 93 days. He also warned about the rise in this university antiBolonia movement "now that are starting to support teachers" who have held a meeting at which drafted a manifesto which rejects Pueta up of the Bologna Process. In the words of the spokesman, the commodification of the University and the Bologna Process "is the same" and you have to claim "a university for the people and not for the company."
Meanwhile, the 2,000 students who marched in Valencia under a banner in his head that read "Stop Bologna. Enough of taxation and repression. Students are not good or criminals, "he criticized both the process and to those who apply. Thus, this directly to Frank Thomas, rector of the University, for" ignoring the protests majority "of students and" maintain an attitude of moving from However, coming to accept a debate and then refuse to respond to suggestions from students, who claimed the call for "a referendum to listen to the will of the students" as the one in Barcelona. "If they refuse to do a referendum because they fear something, "he said. The spokesman pointed out that value aspects as mobility or confergencia for Europe, but opposed" to the way it is being carried out and that lies behind this reform, which is the commodification of the university "to focus on" meeting the market demands. "
Logroño About 1,000 students, 500 in Cuenca and another 500 in Oviedo also took to the streets to show her disapproval of this plan, according to a spokesman students Basin, "will the entry of private enterprise at the University". In Logroño, meanwhile, have been actual side education students who have appeared and have claimed the withdrawal of the decree that hardens the selectivity. Protesters Oviedo expressed concern about the scholarship system to be imposed on both the process and demanded a funding model "Fully public" while pointing to "neoliberal gurus" and "pressure groups" of European entrepreneurs as promoters of the measure.
These demonstrations come just when the Government and the mass media begin to slip some information to society about the benefits of this educational reform, relying exclusively on the train in Europe, in the recognition of qualifications at European level. Faced with this poor argument by the students and teachers are opposed to process it enough points to criticize, among which "the loss of educational quality of racing and the gentrification of access to expertise", the system change scholarships replacing non-repayable grants for scholarships, loans, new ECTS credits which will provide a "full-time student" who pejudicará who want or need to combine studies and work as the new credit system increases and the study day school calendar from 34 to 42 weeks ", that addresses all university activity on the principle of meeting the demands of the market, so it requires the dissolution of the National Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA) or lack of transparency with which the process has been imposed, without information and without taking into account the voice of the student.
The anti-Bologna Day on Thursday 12 arises from purely student, outside the Student Union. First Meeting of the State Assembly against Bologna last December, came off an assembly-student movement at the state level. That movement and other autonomous networks of students, outside the Students Union are those who have led the day's demonstrations. The next statewide mobilizations will be defined in the II state between meetings to be held the weekend of 20, 21 and 22 March in Burgos.
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