Youth

At around 12:15 on Wednesday the 24^th
of November, UCL students who had gathered in the main quad for a rally
as part of the ‘National Day of Action Against Education Cuts and Fees’
marched into the Jeremy Bentham Room in the UCL main building amidst
chants of “no ifs, no buts, no education cuts”. A vote on whether to
occupy was then immediately taken and passed by an overwhelming
majority.

Students occupying Leeds University’s
most important lecture theatre have now been in occupation for a week,
in opposition to the Tory attacks on higher education.

Last Wednesday around 480 students and
staff filled the largest meeting room of the Bristol Students Union.
This was an Extraordinary General Meeting, called as a result of a 24
hour occupation of the union last week.

At the Emergency General Meeting in
SOAS November 18th the students voted for the occupation of space that
the university usually rents out for money. SOAS is a unique institution
because it focuses on a variety of topics and languages such as those
from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The school has already announced
cuts to 95 specialist courses

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
24^th 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 10^th 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.