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#OccupyUGC : Access to higher education

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Over the last few days the country has seen one of the largest student uprisings in its recent history. UGC’s decision to scrap the non – NET scholarship, as declared on 20th October 2015, after a UGC meeting dated October 7, 2015, served as a tipping point for the simmering unrest within this student community, which has long been struggling under the assault of rising tuition fees and cost of education, reckless semesterization program at undergraduate level and deteriorating quality of public higher education due to fund cuts and a plethora of market oriented/vocational courses taking advantage of job insecurity.

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Students on the Road: #OccupyUGC #FeesMustFall #MillionStudentMarch

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The issue of tuition fees and university education seems to go on and on, with new concerns or proposals being brought to the public’s attention on a regular basis. This last couple of months saw the latest in a series of student protests regarding higher education, with thousands of students taking to the streets , be it in India or South Africa, or United States of America, or London, to sum up across the globe, to express their opposition not only to higher fees but also to the so-called ‘privatisation’ of universities.