Where are the bleeding hearts when you need them?

On Wednesday, the student body demonstrated against high tuition fees charged by the private universities.

Apparently their gripe isn’t so much against the universities as it is against the education ministry, which has delayed the introduction of a new bill regarding private universities.

Looking closer at the issue we find that the high school teachers’ union and the civil servants’ union (among others) are in full support of the students’ actions… These fine folk, who are the privileged members of a bloated section of our society, have yet to voice any concern over the state controlled Cyprus University of Technology’s plan of expansion – which will mean evicting a one-of-a-kind educational centre for children with special needs (see the Cyprus Mail, 30/09/09) – the latter has neither the funds nor the clout to find alternative accommodation. Where are the caring, dissenting, public sector voices now?

Conspicuous by their absence because, dare one suggest that in this case their own narrow, self-opinionated interests are not being threatened…
 
Panayiotis Constanti,
Dherynia

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