33 minutes agoDay 15 of protest, Patic for University
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)Today, protests by fifteen public university students who are boycotting instruction in all of the country's faculties were held in Tirana, with economic and academic demands directed to the government and the country's educational institutions. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, within his efforts to open dialogue with students, has begun [...]
Today, protests by fifteen public university students who are boycotting instruction in all of the country's faculties were held in Tirana, with economic and academic demands directed to the government and the country's educational institutions.
Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama, within his efforts to open dialogue with students, has begun to meet with a portion of them and professors through university audiences across Albania.
He, too, via online platform “Albania, which we want” -- this official platform of the Government of Albania -- has made it known that it has engaged several working groups, “s that are working on a Pact document for the University of”.
“Beyond the concrete response to 8 points drawn from student protests, the Pact for the University will be a document of commitment to address general problems for the university, as well as specific problems for each university based on information, opinions, ideas and suggestions collected during the newly developed dialogue process”, the prime minister's announcement on this page says.
This platform, which has within itself the first draft of working on meeting student requirements is said to be in the phase of discussions in working groups, which welcome any student suggestion.
Prime Minister Rama held a meeting with students of the University of “Ismail Kemali” in Vlora on Wednesday. He was met with protests from dozens of students standing outside the faculty building, and was greeted with cheers “there is no dialogue”, “political” and “turp”.
Students have 8 requests to facilitate their studies, related to lowering tariffs, improving the quality of education and the conditions of the dormitory they live in, equipping the student's card for economic conveniences, and representing them on board management and university policymakers.
They, even today, despite the government's continued efforts to dialogue, persistently rejected this and say these conditions are not for talks, but only for their fulfillment, that their protests have no representation and that no one can speak on behalf of the protest.
Students in the first week of their protest stood in front of the education ministry building, then moved in front of the prime minister's building and are constantly taking symbolic action across Albania's entire capital, blocking roads and creating chaos in traffic.
