U.B. Asks G.O.B., “Where is the Increased Subvention?”

In a statement issued by the union, it says, with deep frustration, the U.B.F.S.U. notes the P.U.P.’s failure to follow through on these promises.  Despite the party’s strong rhetoric and stated commitments, U.B. continues to face significant financial challenges, and the promised increase in funding  has not materialized.

 

Timothy Dami, Executive Member, U.B.F.S.U.

“The subvention was at ten million, the previous government raised it to eleven and then because of COVID they dropped it.  As we see everything come back online, we‘ve seen salaries come back, we‘ve seen increments come back across the board, we‘ve seen allowances come back, we‘re seeing infrastructure projects, we‘re seeing things taking place in the country on a national basis.  We feel that it is important to equally restore back this subvention to the point it was prior to the pandemic and we also would like to see the current administration live up to its promise of raising it.  I mean they had two separate cases where they talked about the subvention being reinstated, they also talked about increasing it back to fifteen million by one million dollars a year.  Being that U.B. is a national university, we are here to help solve national issues.  You can see right now with this issue with current and with the climate crisis, the national university is needed to come up with research and plans to help with policy.  There‘s a lot that the national university can do.”