Dear NUT executive members
We thank you for your support for the student walkouts and protests that have taken place across the country.
In issuing a statement that teachers should support students taking part in protests, you sent a powerful message – that the attacks on education impact not just on H/E students, not just on F/E and school students, but teachers too, and society as a whole.
The date for the vote on tuition fees has now been announced: 9th December. In a cynical move the government has called the vote on a day they know MPs from Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales will not be present.
This outrageous attack not only on education but also on democracy should be met with a huge national march on Parliament on December the 9th.
Students and workers together can defeat these cuts, and we are writing to ask for your assistance:
• Push for the NUT to officially support the protest on 9th December
• Ask NUT branches to provide coaches for students and staff to come down to London on 9th December.
• Issue another statement of support. Ask NUT members and branches to make sure that students will not be persecuted for taking a day off school.
• Offer support to teachers, lecturers and any other staff if they walkout on that day.
In Solidarity
National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts
The education system as we know it is under attack. Under the last government, almost £1 billion in cuts to further and higher education were announced. If this wasn’t enough, the new government has announced that an extra £670 million will be cut from the Department of Education.
