The City Paper: University Students protest for education funding, end to university corruption, more

For weeks, Bogota's university students have been protesting in the streets against corruption in the university system and for more funding for public higher education, the City Paper, Colombia's largest English language paper, reports.

Organized by the student collective called National Union of Students for Higher Education (UNEES), the protests have spread in recent weeks to public and private universities across Colombia and have come to demand far more sweeping reforms beyond just education, especially in light of tactics by police students have called excessive and unnecessary.