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After the Teaching and Science Council of the Faculty of Economics in Subotica decided to begin makeup classes for the winter semester starting in June, the students occupying the school in protest decided to boycott the online classes.
A student plenary session adopted the decision to boycott online classes, which began on June 2. "We feel that the attempt to move classes to the digital space is a direct attack on the legitimate student fight and an attempt to place conditions on ending the occupation. Online classes are not the solution -- they are a cover-up of the real problems and an attempt to bypass the demands we have been fighting for for months," reads a student protest statement posted on Instagram on June 4.
The students noted that they could not accept this approach as "shirking responsibility is being offered in place of dialogue."
The Teaching and Science Council of the Faculty of Economics issued a statement on June 2 stating that for months the institution had been facing serious pressure from the authorities directed against employees, management and the school itself.
"Professors are being denied their monthly salaries, the material expenses of business are not being covered, repeat inspections are being conducted, quotas for enrolling new students are not being approved, sanctions are being announced for responsible persons and threats are being made of a new, much more restrictive law on higher education," reads the rationale for the decision on launching classes.
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