US Edition"Tomorrowly false." Minister of Education Refuses to Accuse Students Who Are Missing of Degrading Residences.
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Fernando Alexandre stressed a little social diversity in university residences: "That's why they're downgraded." PS asks for resignation, PCP wants to listen — and the minister is multiplying in explanations.
Fernando Alexandre, Minister of Education, said this Wednesday that university residences are "degradable" because they only have students "of the most disadvantaged means" and should have students of various social strata. The PS considers these statements "graves" and asks that the Minister wishes - not to "recover" what he said; the PCP says they are "absolutely executive" statements.
The Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) announced today that it will request an urgent hearing with the Minister of Education in parliament, and the Livre party condemned the "stigmatizing" statements of Fernando Alexandre, who associated the degradation of university residences with students from lower-income backgrounds. "We will submit a request to the Education Committee to hear the Minister of Education regarding these statements, but what we…
The words of the Minister of Education are not a delusion. They are a clear sign of a government that prefers to blame the poorest rather than deal with the inequalities that exclude thousands of students.
The Minister of Education defended this Wednesday that public residences should have students from several social strata, otherwise, giving priority to teachers, they will grow faster.
Fernando Alexandre stated that it is "to place students in the university residence of the most disadvantaged media that are degraded".
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