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Students unhappy with tuition fees, gathered around the “Let’s protect students” initiative, the protest march, which started from the Rectorate of the University of Belgrade, ended in front of the Serbian Government building.
Photo: Vojisalv StojisavljevićStudents are seeking better educational conditions and a 30 percent reduction in tuition fees, due to the economic consequences of the corona epidemic.
The protest is a reaction to a recent meeting with Chancellor Ivanka Popovic, who transferred responsibility for negotiations on tuition fees to individual faculty administrations.
One of the protest leaders, Nikola Arsenić, said today that today’s protest is a kind of test for the students.
According to him, the Rectorate will have to react to the discontent of the students, stating that any pressure affects the change of the Rector’s decision.
Photo: V. Stojsavljević
Photo: V. Stojsavljević
Photo: V. Stojsavljević
Photo: V. Stojsavljević
As he added, at the end of August, a petition was presented with more than 13,500 signatures from dissatisfied students calling for a 30 percent reduction in tuition fees, and that petition “still stands and will be handed back to the Minister of Education Mladen Šarčević “.
Arsenić announced that students will raise the issue of funding for higher education institutions and that they will seek information on the costs of all faculties, making it clear why tuition fees cannot be reduced.
Arsenic told H1 that a group of students had met who “did not want to be expelled from Serbia.”
“What we see now is something that shows that young people are leaving Serbia, this is not the place for you. We are in front of the Government to see if the rector finds out that there are students in Serbia,” he said.
Several dozen students gathered held banners “Education is worth the state to save”, “Government (no) – insufficient (1)”, “We are just an index number” and “We will not finish.”
Arsenic says they are asking for a reaction from the Serbian government.
“If we have the transfer of the ball, not only to individual faculties, but also to the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance, let the Prime Minister come and transfer the ball to whomever she wants, but show that at this moment the students and education are more urgent than the stadium. ” she says, and transmits H1.
He adds that “we are living in the greatest crisis,” and that students are “at the bottom of the help list.”
According to Arsenić, the next step is the radicalization of the protest, but also the initiation of trials for violating the study contract and the Higher Education Law.
“The deadline is Tuesday, if the demands are not met, the radicalization will continue,” Arsenić said.
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