I found myself stuck in Newcastle
on Monday night due to the cancellation of the busses and took the opportunity
to walk over to the fine arts building at the University to see how the Students
were getting on in their occupation and asked if there was any other support
that they might need.
The student movement accross Britain continued on Wednesday
24th November, with thousands of students and school students
demonstrating in cities
and towns across the country. Following on from the 50,000 strong
national
demonstration in London on the 10th November, an equivalent
number
came out to protest against the cuts, but this time in dozens of
separate
events throughout Britain.
At least 2,000 university,
FE and school students, together
with college trade unions, marched through Liverpool as part of
the national day of action against Tuition Fees.
Events have taken a turn in Britain as
the first mass reaction took place this week against the programme of
vicious cuts being introduced by the Tory-led coalition. On Wednesday,
November 10th, London witnessed an overwhelming response from the
students as a demonstration of over 50,000 marched in protest at the
attacks taking place in Higher Education.
Events have taken a turn in Britain as
the first mass reaction took place this week against the programme of
vicious cuts being introduced by the Tory-led coalition. On Wednesday,
November 10th, London witnessed an overwhelming response from the
students as a demonstration of over 50,000 marched in protest at the
attacks taking place in Higher Education.
Here are even more pictures from the demo called by the NUS and UCU on November 10th in london against cuts in education
Here are some more pictures from the Nov 10th demo against cuts in education.
Yestersday’s NUS/UCU demo in London against attacks on further education
attracted over 50,000 mainly students, who came in their numbers from
all over the country. Many of these were young people demonstrating for
the first time ever. It will not be the last. As the attacks start to
bite, more and more youth will come into activity and draw the political
conclusions.
If anyone still
had any illusions that “we are all in this together”, the Browne Report
and the
Comprehensive Spending Review quickly shattered them. By their actions
this
Coalition has shown it is a government of the rich, by the rich, for the
rich.
Given the cuts already announced to Higher Education (HE), a leading
group of professors was asked by The Guardian (19th October) what HE
would look like in 10 years given the Browne report. The comments were
startling but not surprising.
October 12th was a dark day in the history of British education. Lord
Browne’s review, set up to find ways to off load the burden of higher
education from the state’s balance sheets, went significantly further
than had been expected. In announcing that there should be a complete
free market in higher education, with universities able to charge
whatever they like, Browne signalled that the crisis of capitalism has
forced the government to go much quicker and deeper in their plans to
remould higher education than they had expected.