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Editorial: The ‘peripheries’ revolt

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL Over three days, what began as “some failing university students’ revolt,” according to the government, speedily turned into a well-synchronized protest of hundreds of students which the country’s opposition has tried many times to ignite, but has lacked the spark to do so.   Tirana’s Polytechnic University students headed to the Education Ministry on Wednesday demanding that a 670 Albanian Lek tariff on each credit of each failing class be removed and that the university payment deadlines be changed.During their march to the ministry, capital students from other universities joined them and Elbasan University students boycotted classes…

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