Punjab

Saying no to private education!

Student protests against the privatisation of government colleges continued on the third day.

Express December 12, 2010

MULTAN/FAISALABAD: Student protests against the privatisation of government colleges continued on the third day as scores of students and teachers protested in different parts of the province.

On Bosan Road professors and lecturers association members Shahid Masood and Shahid Tirmizi said that the beating of students and teachers showed the failure of the government. “The government should take back its privatisation decision as it will compromise the future of this nation,” Tirmizi said.

In Faisalabad too, protests continued and two police officials were injured after students pelted them with stones. Municipal Degree College students and teachers protested against the board of governors and t blocked the Abdullah Pur Raod for over three hours.

In Rahim Yar Khan, Kahwaja Farid Post Graduate College students boycotted classes and shouted slogans against the mistreatment of protesting students and teachers by police officials. They said that the Punjab government had shown its tyrannical mindset by torturing students.

Similar rallies were taken out by students in Gujranwala, Sialkot, Gujrat, Hafizabad and Narowal and other cities. Speakers at the rallies said that the government was placing its monetary incentives above the education of the youth’s education and that this would not be tolerated. Exams in several colleges have been cancelled because of the protests and students have boycotted all classes.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 12^th, 2010.

COMMENTS (2)

Syed Nadir El-Edroos | 13 years ago | Reply @Khan: Which UK do you live in? Universities are not nationalised, they are managed independently, they just receive subsidies from the state. And they do happen to be private universities. They are no quotas in any university, under EU law that would be illegal! Are you not following the student protests?

Khan | 13 years ago | Reply Here in the UK all universities are nationalised and public. There are no private universities. The British Government sets all tuition fees and gives all universities quotas on which students to take on from what backgrounds (white, black or asian). Also, here in the UK universities are free for low income people. Only the rich must pay. In Pakistan what bloody difference does it make if it's private or public?

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