Students Protest Against Proposal to Unfreeze Tuition Fees
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Jornal Expresso
ObservadorProtest against the defrosting of the cost of tips will take place in Lisbon, in front of the government headquarters
Higher education students are protesting this Wednesday, in Lisbon, against the government's proposal to re-update the value of tuition starting in the school year 2027/2028, after a freeze that has lasted since 2020. The protest is set at 5 p.m., in front of the government headquarters.
Wednesday, October 21, 2026, more than a hundred students protested in Lisbon against the rise in university fees, currently being frozen since 2020, saying that the cost of food, transportation and accommodation will make it difficult to follow higher education.The students had signs written on: "Education is not a business, or [...]
The threat of increasing the value of tips today mobilized more than a hundred students who expressed themselves in Lisbon against the government's proposal to create more barriers to access to higher education. Luís Gomes is in the first year of his undergraduate degree in history. He admits that the possible thawing of the maximum value of tips will have little impact on his family's budget, but he also acknowledges that it will not be so for …
<p>Students from higher education left this Wednesday on the street in Lisbon, against the intention of the government to unfreeze the value of tips already in the next school year. CNN reporter Portugal Isabel Semedo is on the spot.</p>
The thawing of the tips and the lack of conditions in the colleges are taking the students to the street. In the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, the students denounce the lack of study spaces, of facilities for the student centers and of a public canteen.
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