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Film, drama university students demand replacement of supervisory board, staff threaten strike
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Students at Budapest’s University of Theatre and Film Arts (SZFE) are demanding the replacement of the supervisory board of the foundation that oversees the institution and the restoration of SZFE’s autonomy, while the university’s staff have threatened to go on strike.
In a letter sent to Innovation and Technology Minister Laszlo Palkovics on Thursday, the students ask the minister to call for the resignation of the supervisory board of the Theatre and Film Foundation, which took over the university on Sept. 1 under a government decree. They also demand guaranteed educational and organisational autonomy as well as the restoration of the powers of the institution’s senate.
The students told a press conference that the university’s community rejected the supervisory board appointed by the ministry and regarded its activities as “illegitimate”.
A representative of the university’s staff said the institution’s recently re-written statutes and organisational and operational regulations “forced onto” them by the foundation went against the interests of the university’s staff.
I really wish these protests could mark the beginning of a new era in Hungary. Wake-up Hungarians, time has come for you to put an end to a decade of darkness and decline.
the best part of the SZFE story is that it makes every other university that has been taken over by the government look bad…