Students demand free higher education

Members of the French-speaking student association in Belgium protested last Tuesday outside the building of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation in Brussels to demand free education, reports The Brussels Times.

According to the students, the annual study costs are between €8,000 (US$8,900) and €12,000 (US$13,400). The money is not within reach for everyone and makes higher education sometimes inaccessible.

According to the student association, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights adopted by the UN in 1966 states that “higher education shall be made equally accessible to all, on the basis of capacity, by every appropriate means, and in particular by the progressive introduction of free education”.
Full report on The Brussels Times site