Millions of students and thousands of teachers protested against fresh cutbacks to the education sector in Spain. <br /><br /> Students, teachers and unions alike are all against the so-called Wert Law – a law that is named after the Minister for Education Jose Ignacio Wert. They are angry with the six million euros in cutbacks over the last two years.<br /><br /> Law student Mario wants to stop the government’s education policy: “it is based on cutbacks, cutbacks and cutbacks. We believe the government is trying to pay the illegitimate debt that they got themselves into with social cutbacks.”<br /><br /> One secondary school teacher Jose Maria Carreras believes tougher action is needed: “I think we have to move to more direct actions, administrative and judicial actions because in a lot of cases the situation is bordering on absolute illegality.”<br /><br /> Although the Spanish government said this Thursday that Spain’s economy was out of it’s two year rut and would soon return to growth, Angel Martin, who is unemploed for over a year feels this will not change anything for him. <br /><br /> “The news that Spain is out of recession is positive but in reality I don’t know how this is going to effect us, I think we won’t even notice it, it won’t reach us.”<br /><br /> Spain may be officially out of recession, but one in four are still queuing for the dole. <br /><br /> And Spain’s biggest tragedy is youth unemployment with half it’s youth generation still out of work.
