TSU students beaten

Sanikidze calls for inquest into intel agents at TSU

By | March 13th, 2016|Categories: Youth|Tags: , , |

Tamar Sanikidze. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Education Minister Tamar Sanikidze is considering asking parliament to hold an inquest into the presence of intelligence agents at Tbilisi State University. Saturday evening, Sanikidze met students at TSU who for the last three days […]

Students occupying university building in Tbilisi

By | March 11th, 2016|Categories: Youth|Tags: , |

(DF Watch.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Protesters continue to occupy a building at Tbilisi State University, demanding a transparent process for electing the university’s management amid allegations of interference by the State Security Agency. On the second day of protest, […]

Students clash with police over candidate for university assembly

By | March 11th, 2016|Categories: Youth|Tags: , , |

(Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Students clashed with security guards and police at Tbilisi State University on Thursday while trying to prevent the election of a new chancellor of the university senate. The assembly of the senate had to be canceled. Students continue […]

Students demonstrating for their rights

By | September 18th, 2012|Categories: Society|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – A group of university students refuses to attend lectures when the new academic year begins 17 September. They claim that the quality of education is not on the level they expect, based on how much they pay. The student’s movement Laboratoria 1918 […]

Students demand fired professor reinstated

By | September 16th, 2012|Categories: Society|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – Students at the state university in Tbilisi have launched a protest to demand that a lecturer who was fired for her political views gets back her position. Professor of philosophy and gender researcher Lela Gafrindashvili was teaching various […]

Two students beaten in Tbilisi, say it was because of blog

By | March 15th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – Representatives of Tbilisi State University’s student’s union Wednesday beat two students. The students who were beaten believe the reason was a recently started blog which contains criticism of the student’s union and its actions, as well as the university. […]