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No to student civic service
While state funding for higher education is being slashed, a Demos think tank report suggests that students should be forced to 'earn' the money coming from the state towards their education by doing community service.
Higher Education minister David Lammy claims this scheme would "ease the burden on public services". Presumably this would mean untrained volunteers carrying out the jobs of skilled public sector workers who will lose their jobs once massive cuts are carried out by whichever party forms the next government.
If implemented this scheme would cost £450 million, with the money needed raised from increasing the interest rates on student loans. Students would therefore be 'rewarded' for their civic service by being plunged further into debt.
Sean Figg, Youth Fight for Jobs national organiser
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Nationalise Corus Steel
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Socialist Party editorial
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End the war in Afghanistan
Global Warming
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Socialist Students
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Starting Socialist Students at a Coventry sixth form
No to student civic service
Northampton protest against student loan delays
Socialist Party feature
The legacy of Charles Darwin
International socialist news and analysis
Solidarity with striking South African miners
Scotland: The national question and the general election
Anti-racism
English Defence League show themselves up
Socialist Party appeal
Christmas 2009 donation appeal
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