Saying no to private education!
Student protests against the privatisation of government colleges continued on the third day.
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 12th, 2010.
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 12th, 2010.