Image via Wikipedia Once again
Costa Rica showed the world it was a
democracy. 10,000 students, faculty and administrators from Costa Rica’s
public universities marched to president
Chinchilla’s house. They set up a stage with
loudspeakers and gave the
Costa Rican president an earful. They want more funding for the universities. More scientific equipment, more
field study and more
scholarships.
Chinchilla had in mind an increase of around 5% for university budgets. The marchers were thinking more along the lines of at least 11%. Will they get it? Time will tell. But it is nice to see people so concerned about
higher education. I might add, that as usual Costa Rica did all this peacefully.
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