Students believe that increasing bribes will aggravate the situation of many families with children to study away from home, recalling the 10% reduction in the number of students who have entered universities and polytechnics through the National Higher Education Higher Competition.
Higher education student associations are organizing a national demonstration with Parliament on the last day of discussion of the next to contest the increase in the value of the bribes.
The bribes of public higher education in Portugal will be updated from the next school year, passing the maximum value of the degree of 697 euros to 710 euros annual, confirmed the Minister of Education, ensuring that the defrosts – without changes since 2020 – will be accompanied by an increase in revenues for social action.
The government’s announcement, made in September, led to the contestation and “students’ struggles across the country.”
Student associations from Lisbon, Porto and Caldas da Rainha have now decided to speak again in front of the Assembly of the Republic, on October 28the last day of discussion of the state budget to 2026, told Lusa Guilherme Vaz, president of the Association of Students of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (FCSH), of the New University of Lisbon, one of the protesting organizations of the protest.
“Our goal is to reverse the increase in bribes and resume the path of free. We launched the campaign ‘nobody is behind – free already!’, In which thousands of students participated and, in the face of enthusiasm, we can say that we will have a major demonstration in front of the Assembly of the Republic against the government,” added Guilherme Vaz.
Students believe that increasing bribes will aggravate the situation of many families with children studying away from home, remembering the 10% reduction in the number of students who have entered universities and polytechnic through the National Higher Education (CNAES) competition.
“It is necessary to respond to the streets, to create the general environment of contestation to this measure, to move towards converging thousands and thousands of students around a claim – reverse the increase in bribes, resume the path of gratuity,” argues FCSH in a statement sent to Lusa.
