Students got the ball rolling with a two-day classroom walkout with teachers and parents joining in Spain will join strike action in protest at education cutbacks and reforms and demand that austerity measures, that have seen the number of classroom teachers shrink, be reversed singing, "We are the revolution"

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Student unions say assistance for students from low income backgrounds has been reduced while tuition fees have been hiked.

“More than three million young people have showed with this fundamentally democratic action that they won’t allow the Popular Party’s government to destroy public education,” said Tohil Delgado from del Sindicato de Estudiantes.


OPINION:

The ASUU strike in Nigeria has entered the fourth month (4 months and not days or weeks) with students groaning and suffering at home and parents and guardians helpless with the situation.

The lecturers are 'demanding' for better wages, oh i forgot to add, 'better academic infrastructure'. But who are the ones that bear the brunt of this re-occurring mess? Of course the students

Questions that really demand answers: Are the students who are termed the future of this great country not united to do a peaceful protest (emphasis on peaceful!) in major states of Nigeria and also on daily basis march to National, state assemblies? Are student proving Fela right by be 'suffering and smiling' when some 'fighting elephants' are holding our future at stake? What is the essence of the students unions or they are now totally irrelevant unlike the days of Gani Fawehinmi and others during their student days?

Or is that the lecturers, most of whom are fighting for their pockets (after making massive money from handouts, paid-to pass and other illegal structures a lot engage in). Wether they teach or not, strike or no strike, they will collect their monthly salaries. Truth must be told, even the lecturers that seem to be fighting for their so called students either have some of their children attending various private universities or ones outside the shores of this country. Those who cant, grudging allow their children to attend public tertiary institutions. Here, truth must be told as Nigerian students have been going through hell in the hands of these so called lecturers - you dont believe that, just create a platform for students especially female students whose lives, future and mental well-being have been negatively affected or destroyed by a lot of lecturers

Or is that we are cursed by bad leaders, most of whom don't understand the value of education but instead believe that the more the education doom among the youths, the more the political tools they have to achieve their political agenda (lagos urchins is an obvious example

Before some would say, @tutubranch why not take the lead, i would simply respond, it's take collective efforts!

Guess it is time for ASUU to also shift ground with GEJ to save the students from this academic agony


http://www.tutubranch.com/2013/10/students-protest-spain-ASUU.html



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsxO5QZTG8M

We are tired of strikes, yet they enjoy it? wow seems like spain is where strike works!

i guess this is what Nigerian Students ought to do...

Thank God, oh. No be only Nigerian strike go dey foreign media. I hope this is widely publicized.

Chiamaka01: Thank God, oh. No be only Nigerian strike go dey foreign media. I hope this is widely publicized.

Hopefully if it makes fp!