Access to free public primary and secondary schooling should be a right...post secondary doesn't need to be.
Wow, I can see why they're upset though. Tthe Gov't wants to almost triple tuition fees. That's just rude.
This goes to show that there are morons in every parts of the world.
These sorts of protests, or better known as riots, are completely absurd and do not accomplish much of anything.
tripling tuitions with one stroke of the pen seems awefully agressive and anti-education. No wonder it was met with the same
I'm in semi-agreement with a lot of the anti-austerity measures that are popping up all over, mostly because it's the middle- and lower-income brackets that are having to pay the price for what the wealthy overlords did to the rest of us and to the economy of the entire world. That being said I still have no support or sympathy for these goddamn protestors who engage in this sort of street violence. It's completely counter-productive and negates the support they probably would have gotten through better behaviour and non-violence.
These assclowns usually only represent about 5 to 10%, tops, of any student body anyway. The vast majority of the rest of the kids are back at school or at a part-time job, working hard at both, and moving forwards with their lives in a postive and constructive manner. It's damned unfair that they end up all getting negatively labelled because some asshole anarchists have twisted the word 'student' into something negative and nihilistic. Lousy fuckers.
After looking at how much they have to pay for secondary education before and after the hikes, I can't say I have much sympathy for these clowns. Eliminate the tuition caps altogether, and force the freeloaders and anarchists to get real jobs to support themselves.
For me, the violent protest doesn't serve the protestors. i think less of them for what they have done. Strange enough, I think less of the police and government as well. Peaceful countries should not be having protests like this, so for me, I hold the government accountable and responsible as well.
my take on the issues? I think a overnight trippling of tuition fees ( even if there are good reasons to do so) is a very reckless thing for a government to do. I'm sure it destroys the education plans for an entire group of low income students that might have made alternate arrangements if they were given more warning.
Where?
review what?