Students plan trouser strike

NO TROUSERS, no lessons: secondary school students are threatening to boycott classes on Wednesday in protest at the Education Ministry’s refusal to allow girl students to wear trousers in the winter months.

Students’ co-ordinating committee Esem warned earlier this week that Wednesday’s action would be a “first warning”, with further “dynamic action” to come if the Ministry refused to budge.

“The decision to take dynamic action was taken in view of the Ministry’s intransigence and refusal to discuss the issue,” an Esem statement read.

Students have long been campaigning for girls to be allowed to switch the regulation grey skirt for grey trousers during the colder months of the year, but the Ministry has consistently rejected the idea.

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