Several experts have all agreed that the protests staged in London by British university students, against the rise rates of enrollment, can be imitated by the English to express, in their case, the "malaise" of the university community, "Go to the English university as a factory of precariousness."
Speaking to Europa Press, the professor of political science at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) and an expert in mass movements, Jaime Pastor, has warned that the British did not only come to the streets to express their anger at a particular measure, but also to express his "disappointment" about the social democratic government, "they see that they have been betrayed."
According to renowned sociologist, "Yes there is a common element that would allow the contagion effect or imitative processes in Spain and the rest of Europe, "referring to what he calls" an upset against a conception of the university as a factory of insecurity that drives many students to protest because, well, they see their parents and mothers, universities too, victims of unemployment. "
If it is true that, in the British case, the protests resulted from an increase in university fees, in countries like France have mobilized students for reasons were not affected as directly as, for example, the retirement age. For this reason we do not rule sociologists movements will echo student protests on Wednesday and decide to go out.
For Professor of Sociology of Public Opinion at the University Complutense of Madrid (UCM) Fermin Bouza, these acts of vandalism could be even "bigger" in Spain, with a measure and a concentration of People like London. "As for English students catch the wave, they go out," he warned.
Source: Mirada21.es
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