Universities Protest against Budget Cut

Ljubljana/Maribor/Koper, 30 November - Some 80,000 students and professors at the universities of Ljubljana, Maribor and Primorsko stopped their lectures for one to two hours on Friday to join the "first resistance day of Slovenian universities" against the cuts in funding for higher education and science envisaged in the 2013 budget.

Ljubljana University of Ljubljana chancellor Stane Pejovnik (left) talking to the press. Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA

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University of Ljubljana chancellor Stane Pejovnik (left) talking to the press.
Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA

Ljubljana, univerza. Izjava rektorja Univerze v Ljubljani Radovana Stanislava Pejovnika ob protestu Univerze v Ljubljani. Foto: Daniel Novakovič/STA

Ljubljana, univerza.
Izjava rektorja Univerze v Ljubljani Radovana Stanislava Pejovnika ob protestu Univerze v Ljubljani.
Foto: Daniel Novakovič/STA

Ljubljana University of Ljubljana chancellor Stane Pejovnik (left) talking to the press. Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA

Ljubljana
University of Ljubljana chancellor Stane Pejovnik (left) talking to the press.
Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA

Ljubljana Deans of Ljubljana-based arts academies talking to the press. Pictured from left to right in front row: Miran Zupanič, the dean of Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television, Andrej Grafenauer, the dean of Music Academy, and Bojan Gorenc, the dean of Fine Arts and Design Academy. Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

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Deans of Ljubljana-based arts academies talking to the press.
Pictured from left to right in front row: Miran Zupanič, the dean of Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television, Andrej Grafenauer, the dean of Music Academy, and Bojan Gorenc, the dean of Fine Arts and Design Academy.
Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

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