28 October 2012

La primera Asamblea de la UGR

20/09/2012 -- La Mesa de la Primera Asamblea UGR: se reúnen los tres sectores de la Universidad: los alumnos, el Personal Docente e Investigador y el Personal de Administración y Servicios
20/09/2012, Granada, Spain; University of Granada (UGR) School of Science Main Hall –- The Committee of the First UGR Assembly

The event, by some considered historical, brought (for the first time into one venue) around 300 representatives of all three main parts of the University's community: students, lecturers and administrative staff. The reason for calling such a meeting originated from the disapproval of the Spanish government's austerity measures in education, reflected in Real Decreto 14/2012, a highly controversial act approved in April 2012 and applied eagerly by UGR authorities.

However, it is said that austerity measures are just a good excuse for a much more complex operation: to make public higher education fall into hands of big companies and submit it to the profitability rule, which would result in the extinction of independent scholarship, and a limited access to knowledge, impossible for the less wealthy.

Till the present day, 4 more Assemblies have already taken place in different UGR venues, as well as a number of street marches, pot-banging events, workshops and administrative staff's lockouts at a regular schedule—all against the direction in which .

20/09/2012 -- Primera Asamblea UGR: se reúnen los tres sectores de la Universidad: los alumnos, el Personal Docente e Investigador y el Personal de Administración y Servicios
The debate



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