Rising student fees, regressive education reforms, a €4 billion cut to state education and the firing of thousands of teachers are set to be contested by students and their families as they step up protests in the coming week.

Until now, it has been the teachers who have been leading the defence of state education, which has long suffered from underfunding but is now under unprecedented attack from a Government accused of seeking to turn the clock back to the dark days of the Franco Dictatorship. Continue reading →