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BELGIUM - OCTOBER 12: Students take to the streets across Belgium to protest rising tuition fees and cuts to university funding on Monday, October 12, 2026. They warn that growing financial pressures are making higher education increasingly difficult to access, stressing that education is a right, not a luxury, and that students should not bear the burden of budget shortfalls. (Photo by Sanad Abu latifa/LensOne)
Belgian students protest rising tuition fees and university funding cuts

BELGIUM - OCTOBER 12: Students take to the streets across Belgium to protest rising tuition fees and cuts to university funding on Monday, October 12, 2026. They warn that growing financial pressures are making higher education increasingly difficult to access, stressing that education is a right, not a luxury, and that students should not bear the burden of budget shortfalls. (Photo by Sanad Abu latifa/LensOne)

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  • belgium
  • students
  • protest
  • tuition fees
  • university funding
  • higher education
  • budget cuts
  • student rights
  • demonstration

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Belgian students protest rising tuition fees and university funding cuts

BELGIUM - OCTOBER 12: Students take to the streets across Belgium to protest rising tuition fees and cuts to university funding on Monday, October 12, 2026. They warn that growing financial pressures are making higher education increasingly difficult to access, stressing that education is a right, not a luxury, and that students should not bear the burden of budget shortfalls. (Photo by Sanad Abu latifa/LensOne)
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BELGIUM - OCTOBER 12: Students take to the streets across Belgium to protest rising tuition fees and cuts to university funding on Monday, October 12, 2026. They warn that growing financial pressures are making higher education increasingly difficult to access, stressing that education is a right, not a luxury, and that students should not bear the burden of budget shortfalls. (Photo by Sanad Abu latifa/LensOne)Sanad Abu latifa · 3000 × 2193
BELGIUM - OCTOBER 12: Students take to the streets across Belgium to protest rising tuition fees and cuts to university funding on Monday, October 12, 2026. They warn that growing financial pressures are making higher education increasingly difficult to access, stressing that education is a right, not a luxury, and that students should not bear the burden of budget shortfalls. (Photo by Sanad Abu latifa/LensOne)
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BELGIUM - OCTOBER 12: Students take to the streets across Belgium to protest rising tuition fees and cuts to university funding on Monday, October 12, 2026. They warn that growing financial pressures are making higher education increasingly difficult to access, stressing that education is a right, not a luxury, and that students should not bear the burden of budget shortfalls. (Photo by Sanad Abu latifa/LensOne)Sanad Abu latifa · 3000 × 1997
BELGIUM - OCTOBER 12: Students take to the streets across Belgium to protest rising tuition fees and cuts to university funding on Monday, October 12, 2026. They warn that growing financial pressures are making higher education increasingly difficult to access, stressing that education is a right, not a luxury, and that students should not bear the burden of budget shortfalls. (Photo by Sanad Abu latifa/LensOne)
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BELGIUM - OCTOBER 12: Students take to the streets across Belgium to protest rising tuition fees and cuts to university funding on Monday, October 12, 2026. They warn that growing financial pressures are making higher education increasingly difficult to access, stressing that education is a right, not a luxury, and that students should not bear the burden of budget shortfalls. (Photo by Sanad Abu latifa/LensOne)Sanad Abu latifa · 3000 × 2250
BELGIUM - OCTOBER 12: Students take to the streets across Belgium to protest rising tuition fees and cuts to university funding on Monday, October 12, 2026. They warn that growing financial pressures are making higher education increasingly difficult to access, stressing that education is a right, not a luxury, and that students should not bear the burden of budget shortfalls. (Photo by Sanad Abu latifa/LensOne)
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BELGIUM - OCTOBER 12: Students take to the streets across Belgium to protest rising tuition fees and cuts to university funding on Monday, October 12, 2026. They warn that growing financial pressures are making higher education increasingly difficult to access, stressing that education is a right, not a luxury, and that students should not bear the burden of budget shortfalls. (Photo by Sanad Abu latifa/LensOne)Sanad Abu latifa · 3000 × 2355
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BELGIUM - OCTOBER 12: Students take to the streets across Belgium to protest rising tuition fees and cuts to university funding on Monday, October 12, 2026. They warn that growing financial pressures are making higher education increasingly difficult to access, stressing that education is a right, not a luxury, and that students should not bear the burden of budget shortfalls. (Photo by Sanad Abu latifa/LensOne)Sanad Abu latifa · 3000 × 1675
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JABALIA, GAZA STRIP - SEPTEMBER 26: A Turkish Red Crescent bus distributes ice cream to schoolchildren in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip, on Saturday, September 26, 2026. The Turkish Red Crescent has launched the bus as part of its "Happy Children" project, aimed at bringing smiles to children and easing the effects of the difficult conditions they face, travelling between schools and displacement camps across the Strip amid rising temperatures and difficult humanitarian conditions faced by residents. (Photo by Abed Hakem Abu Riash/LensOne)
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