As you might guess, the new maintainer of the University of Theater and Film Arts used a government decree that referred to an epidemiological emergency to invalidate the semester.

There is growing resistance from students and teachers to the reduction of the autonomy of the University of Theater and Film Arts (SZFE) due to the government’s decision to continue the university as a foundation under Attila Vidnyánszky. More and more world-famous artists are joining the solidarity movement around SZFE, but the Vidnyánszky family is not expanding. You can follow the latest developments in the SZFE scandal in our article series.

Given the continuous emergency, there are no conditions for the legal fulfillment of study obligations at the University.

– declared the board of trustees of the foundation chaired by Attila Vidnyánszky, the maintainer of the University of Theater and Film Arts (SZFE), which was considered illegitimate by university citizens.

A statement posted Friday night on the university’s website refers to a government decree issued Wednesday night.

East, 522/2020. (XI. 25.), adopted due to an epidemiological emergency, establishes: that the conditions for the legal fulfillment of the study obligations do not exist or cannot be assured or controlled by it ”. In the case of other universities, however, a similar problem did not arise, but of course the SZFE is not an epidemiological situation either, but rather a protest of university citizenship since the beginning of the school year.

They can destroy the acting semester

This year, the pine turnover may increase to 15 billion HUF. The change in the euro-guilder exchange rate mainly affects Nordmann pine. And they can sell up to 100,000 more artificial pines than last year.

The Board of Trustees states in the announcement that educational activity at SZFE can only continue after February 1, 2021 and “the maintainer will inform the Office of Education about this.”

The students already reacted Thursday, guessing what will happen before this announcement. They wrote: “There is no cause of public health, public safety or natural disaster at your institution that makes it impossible to legally fulfill your academic obligations. The order of the academic year and the application of students’ rights are directly threatened by the suspension of the academic semester and indirectly by the way in which the foundation is transferred; We believe that these dangers can be prevented if the Ministry of Innovation and Technology, the lawyer defending foundational rights, acts against the contrary maintainer “.

The education ombudsman said hours before the announcement that he said it was illegal for SZFE students to be threatened with suspension from the school year. According to the research by Lajos Aáry-Tamás, the citizenship of the university demonstrated that education occurs in order within the walls of the institution, so that the maintainer does not have to obstruct the academic year.



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