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Votzi, Josef
2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Vienna lecture hall cleared but dissatisfaction remains
Austrian police cleared the main lecture hall of the University of Vienna on Monday morning, which had been occupied by students for the last two months. But the students' demands have not yet been met, writes the daily Kurier: "Like the lecture hall, the new student movement has only been 'provisionally closed'. University rectors and professors are right to be surprised that the students have remained silent for so long. Surveys show their demands have been greeted with much sympathy, and after the pre-Christmas clearing of the lecture hall they now lie under the politicians' Christmas tree: insufferably crowded lecture rooms, hopelessly overloaded study plans and the duplicitous talk of a 'right to education' for all. The occupation of the main lecture hall is over. The students' dissatisfaction at the minimal solutions that have been offered remains. Austrian People's Party chairman Josef Pröll must lose no time in assigning a new education minister, someone who can come up with a better idea than a dialogue that will go on until kingdom come."
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Austria's free universities are a farce
The abolishment of tuition fees in Austria in 2008 has backfired a year later, the daily Kurier contends: "Austria's students are saving 364 euros per semester and must now fight harder than ever over every free place in the laboratories and lecture halls. Austria's free universities are acting like a magnet for German students who fail the selection procedures back home. The political ideal of 'free university admission' for everyone who wants to study is basically a total farce. The losers are the students who have been freed of the yoke of fees. The [Austrian Socialist Party] SPÖ will no longer be able to avoid a new debate about fees (with mitigating grants) and EU-compatible admission procedures - unless it finally re-baptises itself as 'Austria's Senior Citizens' Party'."
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