Scholars have offered calculator to Nuno Crato (with photos) - The Ball

The cut of € 42 million in education led a group of university professors and researchers, and deliver a gift in the Ministry of Education: a calculator

spokesman of this group of protestors. Jose Emilio Ribeiro spoke of symbolic action to Renaissance : “When the cuts in funding from the state budget, which are the result of wage cuts, are above average cuts of public administration, the Government Any accounts institution to institution until the penny, when the cuts are below average cuts in the public service that competence is clouded by magic and then it is cut by the mean. That is, we always cut the worst of situations and we do not accept it, because the university has a constitutional dignity, here and in European countries. »

José Emilio Ribeiro remember the consequences that these cuts are likely to have in the future of education in the country: “No new admissions or there are very few people have left, foreign researchers, including those linked to Science Program, begin to leave the country, that we educate young people with expenditure also leave money, especially the best ones are recruited by foreign universities. In the medium term it will cost us dearly. “