Demonstrations against the cut of SU

The tax commission's proposals will cut the State Education down from six to four years, received last Friday the students of the Department of Sociology, who belongs Københanvs University, to start a few minor demonstrations.

Today it takes the students from RUC above. Tomorrow is expected another demonstration, but where they will turn to is published. The sporadic demonstrations is selected so that the politicians can see that all the students around the country are supporting the protest, says the spokesman of the sociology student at the University of Copenhagen, Cecilie Roennow Eskelund. New figures from Statistics Denmark supports the Tax Commission's proposals to cut SU down to four years on the longer courses. The new figures show that students in 2009, more money from the hands than they had in 2000, writes Metro. As living with their parents students is the amount you get in SU per. month, increased from kr. 3,907 to kr. 5,177, representing an increase of more than 32%. The cost of living for an ordinary Dane in the same period increased by 18%, the consumer price index that follows the price of all goods and services. "The value of an income should be seen in relation to what you can buy for it, and in this context there is no doubt that the students have become more wealthy. Short, they can buy more and more goods and services, "says Ph.D. Hans Linderoth, researcher in price at Aarhus School of Business.