Take back your campus: Birmingham, 15th Feb
There are now UNDER TWO WEEKS to go until the Take Back Your Campus demo at the University of Birmingham. We are calling on students to come from all over the country on February 15th to defend the right to protest and fight for the democratisation of higher education. The National Union of Students has [...]
Statement by members of NCAFC Women’s Committee on the behaviour of Fiona Edwards at NCAFC Conference
The following is a statement from members of the NCAFC Women’s Committee on the behaviour of Committee member Fiona Edwards at NCAFC Conference (Liverpool, 28-28 January).
National Student Strike: coming to a campus near you this March
Press contact: 07964791663 The National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts is calling for a National Student Strike this March, in support of a nationwide strike on pensions by the lecturers’ union, UCU, and coinciding with an official walk-out called by the National Union of Students. A date will be announced later this week, along with [...]
NCAFC conference: report
The national conference of the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC) was held in Liverpool on January 28th and 29th. Between 150 and 200 students and activists from all corners of the UK attended, in the largest event of its kind in many years, with discussion and skill-sharing on a huge range of issues. [...]
Dayschool: rebuilding the tradition of independent working-class education
10-3.30pm, 4 February Brunswick Centre, near Russell Square Tube, London. See below for more details.
NCAFC conference ends
NCAFC has now held its national conference. Attendance was high, and a lot has come out of it. A full report of the workshops, policy passed and people elected to the committee will be posted here soon.
Motions to NCAFC national conference
All motions and amendments received for conference are listed below, in no order. This is not the order paper and corrections are pending, so stay tuned. Conference attendees will receive the full order paper on the day. Motions document *** No to racist scapegoating – for unity in fighting cuts and racism Conference believes: 1. [...]
Students cry foul over management interference in student union referendum
Students at University College London have condemned the results of a referendum of No Confidence in their Vice Chancellor after university management sent an email to all students effectively urging them to vote against it. The vote eventually fell by 1185 to 1699, with 391abstentions. Students had been calling for a vote of No [...]
Motions deadline passed
The motions deadline for NCAFC Conference has now passed. No further motions or amendments (other than minor textual amendments) may be submitted for voting by the conference. All motions submitted will be posted on the website presently
Motions to NCAFC Conference
The following are the motions submitted to NCAFC Conference so far. More will be submitted soon – watch this space. NCAFC supporters can submit motions and amendments by emailing againstfeesandcuts@gmail.com, the deadline is 5pm Thursday 26 Jan The Liberal Democrat Spring Conference is in Newcastle/Gateshead on 9th-11th March. Anti cuts campaigners ACN and NFEN are [...]
The government shelves its HE Bill after 2 years of mass protest: the fight goes on
For press contact, ring 07964791663 Today, it has been reliably reported that the government is shelving its Higher Education Bill for a number of years. Reports show that it will wait for years to be published – and if the student movement has anything to do with it, it never will be. Why? Because the government doesn’t want [...]
Birmingham students prepare to confront ban on protests
Last November following a peaceful sit-in in an unused gate house at the University of Birmingham, university managed acquired a draconian injunction banning all “occupational protest action” for twelve months. The injunction was condemned by Amnesty International and others. Now they are preparing to take on and defeat this injunction, with a demonstration on 22 [...]
NCAFC conference is very soon: make sure you’re there!
The title says it all. It’s now just over a week until the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts holds its conference in Liverpool on Jan 28th and 29th. For the agenda, click here. If you want to have your say in what the student movement does over the next year, and have a lot [...]
Motion for NCAFC conference proposing election strategy at NUS national conference
This is one of a number of motions going forward to NCAFC national conference 2012 (28-29 January, Liverpool). To submit a motion, email againstfeesandcuts@gmail.com
Daniel Cooper for ULU Vice-President!
NCAFC national committee member Daniel Lemberger Cooper is planning* to stand for Vice-President of University of London Union, the federation uniting student unions at the “old” London universities. (The ULU elections are 2-9 February.)
Reinstate Kingston Uni student James Heslip
“James is serving a one-year prison sentence for his involvement in the student protests last year, during which he broke a window.
28 days to save profitable course that faces closure because it does not fit “business model”
There is now only 28 days left to save this unique course. As environmentalists and anti-cuts activists we should all get behind this; it is essentially a case study of all the changes we stand against in the education sector. This is a market in education destroying a valuable course. This articulates in practice all [...]
Student protestor attacked by his own tory president
Tory Guild of student’s president Mark Harrop, who was responsible for the suspension of Edd Bauer, has identified one of his students to face disciplinary for a peaceful protest, further to this he negatively speculates against the student increasing his chance of being expelled. The university on Marks evidence have decided to take the process [...]
Labour Students fight for democracy in their organisation
Activists in Labour Students, the student wing of the Labour Party and a dominant player in the leadership of NUS, are raising more and more concerns about the lack of democracy in their organisation.
