Students at the University of Algarve "do everything" to prevent the Government from cutting direct transfers to the institution by 12,5 percent, as planned, and threaten to take to the streets "to hold demonstrations, protests and consultations with the Ministry of Finance, which until now have not been granted to us».
«We are ready to show solidarity with CRUP», Pedro Barros, president of the Academic Association of the University of the Algarve (AAUAlg) said this Friday, on the sidelines of a press conference where the UAlg rector read a statement from the Council of Deans, simultaneously with their counterparts from Portuguese public universities.
The General Directorate of AAUAlg had already gone public this Thursday to show "its total disagreement with the cuts foreseen in the State Budget for Higher Education, for the year 2013".
In a statement, the representatives of the Algarve's university students argued that "these successive cuts suffocate the institution, and may jeopardize the livelihood of the University of the Algarve and other Higher Education Institutions, essentially institutions at a regional level", accusing the Government of not have “an effective strategy for Higher Education in Portugal”.
«The Dean is quite clear: if the cuts are maintained, in three years' time 250 thousand students will not be employed, that is, Portugal will lose qualified labor», reinforced, today, Pedro Barros.
«The Academic Association highlights the effort on the part of the management bodies of the University of Algarve to carry out a more effective management, however we have reached a level where you cannot manage what you do not have», reads, also, in the communicated.
«We ask the Ministry of Education and Science to reconsider the cuts foreseen in the 2013 State Budget, within the scope of the discussion in its specialty, thus guaranteeing the maintenance of all Higher Education Institutions», concluded the AAUAlg.
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