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1 February 2012
NUS: name the day for student walkout
This week there has been another set of statistics showing that £50,000 worth of debt is enough to make many people rethink plans to go to university
12 October 2011
Students should support 30 November strikes: On 8 September this year 283 out of 420 Greek higher education institutions were under occupation. This will remind many in this country of when over 50 universities in the UK were occupied
31 August 2011
A warning from the FE sector - hands off our education!
The academies project was started by Tony Blair's New Labour government, but now the Con-Dems are 'fast tracking' it...
Socialist Party members sell The Socialist, photo Paul Mattsson
23 March 2011
What has socialism got to do with fighting the cuts?
Each week members of the Socialist Party sell copies of the Socialist newspaper at workplaces, colleges, stations, town centres and working class estates all over England and Wales, as well as at protests and meetings...
No to cuts! Youth Fight for Jobs demonstration, photo by Suzanne Beishon
23 February 2011
The government has an entire generation in its sights. It is determined to price working class young people out of education. It has voted to triple tuition fees to £9,000 a year, savage funding to universities...
16 February 2011
UCU members prepare for battle on pensions and pay
Students came onto the streets in their thousands in the closing weeks of 2010 and university occupations sprung up all over the country, writes Dave Beale and Sarah Mayo (UCU, personal capacity).
15 December 2010
Reports of 'Day X' fees protests
London: On Thursday 9 December, while parliament debated the Con-Dem coalition government's plan to treble university tuition fees, a fifth day of angry protest took place across the country...
Newcastle student demonstration, photo Ray Smith
2 December 2010
Students to shut down education on 'Day X'
Walkouts have been organised by school, college and university students for 9th December - 'Day X' - when the government will be voting on fees.
These walkouts will shut down the education system across Britain in a mass demonstration of opposition against tuition fees and education cuts.
25 November 2010
Student walkouts on 24 November
Last updated 29 Nov Throughout the day students across the country demonstrated, occupied and walked out against the government's attacks on further and higher education, many initiated by Youth Fight for Jobs and Socialist Students.
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2 June 2010
University and Colleges Union: Congress votes to fight
Union (UCU) annual congress have voted overwhelmingly to ballot for industrial action to save jobs, with action expected to take place in the last week of September 2010, writes Edmund Schluessel, Cardiff University UCU, personal capacity.
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