2012年4月24日星期二

There are more than 80,000 Chilean secondary school students

There are more than 80,000 Chilean secondary school students, teachers and parents on the 25th, marched in downtown Santiago, the capital to pressure the government implementation of "free quality public education.




Procession shouting slogans "free education" in the organization of the Federation of Chilean Students, holding placards in the center of the road. The end of the procession near the demonstrators and the security police, sporadic conflict, but causing no injuries.




Last year, San Diego high school students to launch up to seven months of demonstrations and strikes to protest the government's privatization of education reform. Protest against the views are mainly concentrated in the government financial support for public universities is not enough, liabilities Students complete the studying burden too heavy, too prominent private universities to profit nature, and the privatization of higher education system.




Forced by the pressure of student demonstrations, President of Chile, Piniella, in July last year, announced the launch of the new program of the higher education system, including the provision of $ 4 billion of grants and enhance the quality of higher education, but the protesting students that this not enough to ease the current shortage of public funding for education the status quo.




On the 23rd of this month, the Chilean Ministry of Education, announced by the State to set up a special student loan fund, a fixed annual rate of 2 percent of the student loans to public and private college students, while terminating the business of banks to provide students with student loans, and hope that through low interest rates ease the economic burden on students.




According to statistics, 72 percent of Chilean university students complete their studies need to take different levels of debt, especially in recent years, private banks are gradually involved in the student loan business loan threshold is high and interest rates unreasonable caused great public dissatisfaction.


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