Minister Okays Ceding Budapest Corvinus Departments To Gödöllő University
- 10 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
The human resources minister has passed a final decision to move three departments of Budapest’s Corvinus University to Szent István University in Gödöllő, a town near Budapest. Deans of the departments of food science, horticultural science and landscape architecture said after talks with Zoltán Balog, the minister, that they had had no opportunity to negotiate.
Integrating the three departments with Gödöllő university is a fait accompli, Kinga Szilágyi Mezős, one of the deans, quoted Balog as saying.
Though the deans contested the decision, “no satisfactory reason” was given as to why integration would result in better operations than cooperating in a network, as suggested by Corvinus, Szilágyi Mezős insisted.
During the press conference, students held up signs to protest against the transfer of their departments.
On Monday and Tuesday similar protests were held in Budapest, attended by hundreds of students of the three departments.
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