What drives student protest in universities?

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What are the most common reasons that usually drive student protest in universities? What are the best ways of handling this?

Azedine Boulmakoul

Students are young and intelligent ... They are the future of humanity ... and therefore they need a university with good governance and interesting training programs. The university must have a steering committee that integrates student representatives (university democracy)

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