One Week For Government! Pedagogue’s Ultimatum to Government

One Week For Government! Pedagogue’s Ultimatum to Government

Pedagogues of the University of Tirana have gathered today to create a professional advertisement of their roles and responsibilities as well as explain their function in Albanian society and in the university system. 

The Assembly of members from the Faculty of Economics did not attend this meeting, but lecturers expressed their support alongside students and their colleagues for their demands.

Pedagogues also invited colleagues from other universities to react to the effects that the Law on Higher Education has caused in public Higher Educational institutions.

Unanimously, they demand the annulment of the Higher Education Law, as they claim it seriously affects the university's autonomy and academic freedoms.

At the meeting of the Pedagogical Assembly among faculties at the University of Tirana, which was held today, Professor Mark Marku has urged members to react, stating that no one can be allowed to violate their dignity.

He went on to say: “Today, with the Decision by Council of Ministers, we have been turned into a University without any autonomy or academic freedom. Will we accept this? Or will we have the reactive force necessary to refuse this situation? I think yes. 

We have many possibilities at our fingertips and we do not have to be afraid.

“There is no reason for any professor or free man to have fear. I urge every dignified person here to react because we should not allow anyone to harm us,” stated Marku.

Assemblies in the faculties of the University of Tirana gave the government a 1-week deadline to respond to their requests otherwise they warn of a possible boycott without a teaching deadline.

Gathering today, assemblies decided to address the Prime Minister with their demands, including: Support for student requirements; Objection to the law on Higher Education and the start of the legislative process for compilation of the new law; an increasing of the budget for public Higher Education and a real guarantee of financial autonomy; and finally, an immediate suspension of the governments denigrating campaign with an approval of the so-called pedagogue status.

Pёrktheu: Paola Pupla

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