Education Struggles – Page 2

Education Commission Report #2: Education at the Border

“Over the past twelve months we have watched as universities have been dramatically transformed through tuition fee increases, job cuts and restructuring, privatisation and financialisation. Less attention, though, has been drawn to other insidious changes in the sector: the transformation of the classroom and university into a border checkpoint and university workers into immigration control”. […]

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Borders/Migration, Education Struggles

25th April 2013

Reflections on #Mar25 at Sussex University

The occupation at the University of Sussex began on 7 February over the university management’s intention to outsource 235 jobs to private companies. Since then a “Sussex Against Privatisation” blog has received heavy traffic and yellow squares – the adopted symbol of the campaign – have become ubiquitous across the campus, adorned everywhere from coats

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Education Struggles

26th March 2013

Sussex ‘Pop-Up Union’ to fight outsourcing

Workers at the University of Sussex have formed a new union in a bid to halt the outsourcing of 235 campus jobs. The initiative comes from rank-and-file members of the three recognised campus trade unions, with the support of students from the now six-week old Occupy Sussex movement. Announcing the move at a mass demonstration

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Actions, Education Struggles

25th March 2013

Occupy Sussex Press Release

Press Release – 25/03/13 – 4.30pm Today marks an important and momentous day in the history of resistance at Sussex University and in the United Kingdom. At 1pm today, students from across the country stood alongside academics, university staff and others in a mass display of solidarity and expressed anger at the Management of Sussex

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Education Struggles

25th March 2013

Education Commission Publishes Report Condemning Privatisation and Immigration Controls in UK Universities

21 November, 2012 London, UK – On the day of the first major NUS demonstration in nearly two years, the Education Commission published a report into the effects of increased tuition fees and privatisation in the higher education sector. Full Report: FOOT IN THE DOOR: PROFIT AND PUBLIC EDUCATION Education Commission spokesperson Lou Shelley said:

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Education Struggles

21st November 2012

From the Defence of the Present to the Control of the Future

Re-published with the permission of Shift magazine. The recent student unrest has massively expanded political possibilities in the UK and Europe. The game is afoot and the next move is to generalise the struggle beyond the education sector. For many an ‘anti-cuts’ message is the way to do this. There is a danger, however, that

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Education Struggles, Strategy

13th October 2012

Hope Against Hope: A Necessary Betrayal

By Nicholas Beuret What has been taken from them to make them so angry? Hope, that’s what. Hope, and the fragile bubble of social aspiration that sustained us through decades of mounting inequality; hope and the belief that if we worked hard and did as we were told and bought the right things, some of

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Education Struggles

15th September 2012