Chile: Students protest privatisation and are attacked by riot-police
Protests against police violence
Hundreds of students flooded the streets of Chittagong (Bangladesh) to protest police violence today [August 14th]. Slogans such as "Why 300 injured? Why 500 arrested? Why 120 criminal cases?" and "We won't pay any extra penny!" were shouted. (NewAgeBd.com, scroll down to 2nd article)
One day earlier more than 200 former CU students formed a human chain in Chittagong city to protest the police attacks on Aug.02nd. (NewAgeBd.com, scroll down to 6th article)
Students at Chittagong University hit back - Protests are spreading!
Thousands of students successfully protested against the introduction of Value Added Tax (VAT) in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh on July 26th. The introduction was revoked.
About 2000 students took to the streets of Dhaka (Bangladesh), mostly from private universities (e.g. North South University, East West University, American International University of Bangladesh, Brac University and Dhaka International University), to protest against the governments decision to charge a Value Added Tax (VAT) of 4.5% to the tuition fees. In Bangladesh about 23% of students attend private universities. But keep in mind that by far not all are students who would want to study.
More than 1500 students (out of 2000) joined a walkout at the University of the Philippines in Baguio to protest against tuition hikes and for a sufficient state funding of public education.
The following report ended up in my inbox today:
Protests against Fee increases at the University of Prishtina
July 15th:
More than 2000 students joined a protest at the University of Kelaniya in Sri Lanka against the increasing privatisation of education and budget cuts for higher education.
Source: dailymirror.lk
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