"O Crato, what are you doing with universities?" - Público.pt

microphone installed in front of the Ministry of Education and Science has been useful for teachers in higher education across the country were reporting what is happening in their institutions. “O Crato, where is thy mathematical logic? What are you doing with universities? “Questioned a teacher at the University of Aveiro. “The University of the Azores are being scrapped. We are accumulating losses and losing students who can not afford the fees, “complained another of about 100 teachers who focused this afternoon on Avenida 5 October, in Lisboa.

The purpose of concentration scheduled for four o’clock was to protest legislation that teachers say threaten the future of higher education. The new cativações and cuts in the budgets of educational institutions enrolled in the Supplementary Budget and bill of “retraining” (amending the law of the bonds and the former special mobility) joined the National Union of Higher Education (Snesup) and the National Federation of Teachers (Fenprof) in protest.

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tracks placed with the ministry and placards wielded by teachers to read statements like: “There stranglehold of Higher Education”, “not a policy of cheap labor”, “Requalification more budget cuts equal to redundancies . ” And the redundancies are indeed one of the major concerns of teachers.

Unions say the blocking 2.5% of appropriations for salaries and certain permanent lay many career teachers at risk. At least in some institutions that have no room for maneuver, explained the PUBLIC Rui Salgado, the Fenprof. “There are many institutions that are starving.”

proof is, according to António Vicente, the Snesup that “many teachers already have to pay from your own pocket for teaching materials, photocopying and even toilet paper.”

But there are more problems. “We want the specifics of certain careers are taken into account in the new law of ‘rehabilitation’, including the specifics of the careers of teachers,” said António Vicente has been warning for risk, with the approval of the new rules governing the new regime of special mobility, now called “retraining” a significant number of teachers in higher education be in danger of losing the bond with the institutions where they work. “This is when we have a country that has no higher education more. Higher education have less. “

Throughout the afternoon, there were several calls from teachers present at the protest in Lisbon for the next 27th general strike is “a big strike” also in higher education.

In the academic year 2011/2012, with the last published data, were teaching in higher education 25,849 teachers.