In this section: Youth and Students items:
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29 October 2008 Showing no concern for the welfare of students, the Newcastle University chancellor Lord Patten described tuition fees of £3,145 a year as "intolerably low" at the headmasters' and headmistresses' conference last month! Ian Pattison, Newcastle Socialist Students, writes. 29 October 2008 THE NATIONAL Union of Students (NUS) pro-New Labour leadership are currently trying to push through massive attacks on the union's internal democracy, writes Ben Robinson. 22 October 2008 Bail out the students - not the bankers! - Campaign to Defeat Fees protest, photo Bob Severn 22 October 2008
Interview with Natalie Powell-Davies, 14, recently elected as deputy youth mayor for Lewisham... 22 October 2008
London: The chant of, "Stop the fees, stop the debt. Give us what the bankers get!" was heard up and down Victoria Street as Socialist Students protested outside the Department of Innovation, Universities and... 17 October 2008
Campaign to Defeat Fees wins 15 October 2008
SUPPORTERS OF the Campaign to Defeat Fees in Bangor university took our fight to build a mass campaign to beat the fees to students around campus, writes Bangor Socialist Students. 15 October 2008
On 10 October, over 80 technicians, porters and IT services staff, members of Unite, went out on the first of four strike days as Sussex university launched another attack on staff, writes Lee Vernon, Sussex university students union. 8 October 2008 Build a mass movement for free education: SINCE THE New Labour government brought in tuition fees eleven years ago, students have been told that "debt is good." The government claimed that the university fees and loans system increased social mobility, that all students who graduate would have their debts cancelled out by increased earnin, writes Iain Dalton, Bangor Socialist Students, and Matt Dobson Socialist Students national organiser. 8 October 2008
The Socialist has received reports from all over the country about the success Socialist Students has had in recruiting new members. The following reports give a flavour of the events, even in the universities where student union rules made it hard and expensive to sign up to join Socialist Students. | |||||||||||||||
