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information booth and coordination meetings

On Saturday, 25 April has built up the working group protest of the Karl Marx University of Trier in the global week of action under the slogan "Reclaim Your Education" an information booth at the Trier grain market. There has been advised by means of various materials on the nationwide education strike this year, which is scheduled for June in the oldest city in Germany, finding their way.
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Worldwide Education in Transition: The humanistic ideal of a critical reflection on empowering the common good-oriented education is being pushed back. Instead, education is adapted to the needs of the market and thus even more and more a commodity. Universities are increasingly dependent on the economy, tuition fees, elite formation and selection criteria as the number Klausus prevent the free access to education. The current education system is based on painstaking memorization of knowledge and meets with rapidly increasing class size and teacher shortage caused by the cancellation of lessons, to its limits. We Schools need to move the individual in the foreground, and specifically to promote the appropriate requirements of the student / in.

You prefer to be cared for the external evaluation, instead of investing in teacher education and to promote democratic evaluation in schools, involving all stakeholders. And do not forget: Secondary Plus, the combination of real and secondary schools, which has been accompanied by such a great media spectacle, but not the root causes of social selection in the education system fixed hat.Auch the study conditions in Trier, which already last year after protests have provided have not changed. Thus, for example - Seminar places awarded by lottery, with a majority of students goes blank - out of space and teacher shortages.

On 5 November 2008 gathered people around the world for a day of protest against the commercialization and privatization of education. By various protests around the world, they demonstrated a unique cohesion and determination for the common goal: free education. Was subsequently called for a worldwide action week. regain their education and calls for the motto.

It also wants the project group: beyond the necessary "democratization and strengthening of co-and self-government in all educational institutions" and "free access to education and abolition of all educational fees such as tuition fees, training fees and daycare fees" a "public financing of the education system without influencing the economy, among other things on course content, course structures and job assignment. To these and other demands to be heard it this summer in Germany come to protests of various kinds, the nationwide student strike of 15 to 19 June.

The project group has already found supporters in over 40 cities. So also in Trier. In organizing the protests participate Trier students now represent the country of Rhineland-Palatinate, the regional Working Group (RAK) 7, the working group protest, and the Student Committee of the University.

On Thursday, 7 May
, there will be a public meeting to which all interested persons are invited. In the bar room of the Exzellenshaus, Zurmaiener Straße 114, Trier, 19.30 informed, discussed and coordinated.

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