A
clearing house for students displaced by the university’s visa fiasco
will include six private colleges in a total of 14 institutions.
In keeping with its general policy of favouring business over the needs
of ordinary people, the government now gets to offer a subsidy in the
form of the tuition fees of over 2,000 overseas students.
A
clearing house for students displaced by the university’s visa fiasco
will include six private colleges in a total of 14 institutions.
In keeping with its general policy of favouring business over the needs
of ordinary people, the government now gets to offer a subsidy in the
form of the tuition fees of over 2,000 overseas students.
With term almost upon us students are desperately trying to find a
place, and it is clear who is benefiting. The rush towards the
marketisation of education continues apace, no doubt attracting many
unscrupulous organisations out to make a quick buck in the process. The
timing of the UK Borders Agency’s attack on students is certainly not
accidental: it leaves as little time as possible for chaos to be
averted.
On the Today programme on 14/09/2012 an Indian student, with six months left to completion of his course, told how he is being asked to pay the full fee for another year of tuition,
which he does not need. There have also been tales of people having to
pay to hand in completed MA dissertations. The government is not
interested in these stories and university management is adapting to the
new normal of profit before education. London Met is the first
experiment of many in market involvement in higher education, and it
will not be stopped without the organised resistance of students and the
working class.
Militant Student supporters have organised Marxist Societies around
the country, and in London established societies will be meeting weekly
in ULU, UCL, Queen Mary’s and UAL. The school student union in London is
also lending its support. We will be organising a solidarity campaign
at these universities and calling on their student unions to take a
lead.
- No to deportation! End all immigration caps!
- No to privatisation of Higher Education
- No cuts!
- No fees! Reintroduce grants for all!
- Nationalise the banking system and the commanding heights of
the economy to end capitalist anarchy in education and society.
For a socialist plan of production to end youth unemployment
