The Education Activist Network is calling for a student strike to coincide with the next day(s) of industrial action.

March 7th – NUS National Lobby of Parliament

Education Activist Network is calling on all other education groups, SUs and individuals to join a feeder march from outside ULU on that day – More details to be confirmed

EAN’s call is supported by: ULU, LSE SU,

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click here for model motion

March 12th – 16th – NUS Week of Action

The Education Activist Network is fully behind NUS’ week of action and will be calling local meetings and assemblies in order to build for that week.

NUS National Walk-Out – Date to be confirmed

The Education Activist Network will maximize the trunout on the day

National Autumn Demonstration – date to be confirmed

some Student’s Union Officers and activists have set up the following blog whcih calls on NUS to call a national demonstartion in the Autumn.  http://students4autumndemo.wordpress.com The Education Activist Network supports that call

For more info on local EAN groups:
Essex Education Activist Network

Exeter Education Activist Network

Kent Education Activist Network

Manchester Education Activist Network

Goldsmiths Education Activist Network

Kingston Education Activist Network

Sheffield Education Activist Network

Oxford Education Activist Network

Teesside Education Activist Network

Leeds city-wide Education Activist Network

Woodcraft EAN

University of East London Education Activist Network

wanna start an EAN group e-mail educationactivist@gmail.com

According to the Daily Telegraph: “The decision to drop the legislation is a major blow for Mr Willetts who has given his wholehearted backing to the reforms. He had pledged to introduce legislation this year.”

Cameron, Clegg and Willetts do not want to see a repeat of the mobilizations that took place in November/December 2010. One of the reasons the vote is being ‘indefinitely’ postponed is that the government faces significant resistance – UCU’s continued strike action over pensions, the Campaign for the Public University, the No Confidence Campaign as well as growing opposition to the NHS Bill. This shows two things: first, that the struggles for public services such as health, education and the welfare state are linked. Secondly, that when broad alliances are forged, our movement can be very effective.

As the government backtracks, it is time for us to seize the initiative and call for the scrapping of university tuition fees. The HE Bill was first and foremost designed to ensure that the fees regime worked – this announcement clearly shows that it will not.

Rather than showing how strong Willetts’ position is, this announcement exposes its weakness. Willetts may not have the confidence to push through the HE Bill but – regardless of what happens in parliament – changes are taking place outside of the legislative framework. Numerous individual institutions will try to implement the recommendations of the HE White Paper anyway. At London Met, for example, the outsourcing of administrative posts is happening regardless

As the Times Higher Education puts it: “[M]any of the other reforms that have already been implemented, such as the increase in the tuition fee cap to £9,000 this autumn and the ‘core and margin’ and AAB plans, which will see student places removed from general allocations and thrown open to competitive bids, will not be affected.”

The chaotic and haphazard dismantling of the existing university system continues.

We need to continue to build opposition to the trebling of tuition fees, the debt regime and 100% funding cuts to Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, whilst at the same time forming the kinds of alliances that have the social and economic power to reverse these devastating neoliberal reforms.

This will be a relief to those who have campaigned against a set of policies that proposed opening the university system to corporate marketisation and making profit, not education, the priority of Higher Education institutions.

We need to be vigilant, since government will no doubt try to introduce many of its proposed changes via existing legislation, just as they did November 2010 with the parliamentary vote that raised fees to up to £9000 per year, leaving generations of young people in a lifetime of debt.

The battle for universities continues. But this is a partial victory that shows that collective resistance can bring about the right results.

The full Telegraph article can be viewed here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/9034279/American-backed-private-universities-plan-dropped.html 

It joins other major unions NUS, NASUWT, PCS and UNITE in rejecting current proposals.

The government plans to impose in reforms in April anyway.

The UCU motion calls for an escalation of industrial action with other unions in February, involving rolling strikes at regional and national level where appropriate, and invites other unions to join.

Thursday 1 March is the proposed date for coordinated national strike action to continue the fight of 30 June and 30 November.

Education Activist Network will be at the forefront of the struggle for fair pensions for present and future generations. 

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Weds 7 December, 5pm – 6.30pm. Assemble outside the main entrance of King’s College London – Strand Campus, WC2R 2LS

Conservative Future are organising a ‘Back Boris Student Bootcamp’ where the Tory Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, will be telling students how they can support his bid to get himself re-elected in May.

Join Occupy LSX’s ‘BOOT OUT BORIS’ protest outside the event from 5pm-6.30pm.

The Tories are seeking to destroy the lives of young people. Youth unemployment has rocketed above 1 million, EMA has been abolished, tuition fees are soaring and even more attacks are on the way from cuts to public services & jobs to attempts to privatise education. Come along and let Boris Johnson know what you think of his party’s record in government.

Assemble 5pm Wednesday 7 December outside the main entrance of King’s College London, Strand Campus London, WC2R 2LS. The closest tube stations are Embankment and Temple.

They write:

Occupy Essex calls for a day of action in solidarity with the pensions strikes and against the HE White Paper on Tuesday 6th December. This is the day we will be challenging our management’s cut backs to accommodation services and the creeping privatisation that caused it. We call on all students to take action on that day, however small, to stand alongside us, and stand united against the Government’s plans for Higher Education.

Please add your occupation group or anti-cuts group to this call!

Occupy Essex facebook occupiedessexuni@gmail.com 07855928749

Brighton University Occupation facebook 07984315352

UWE http://uweagainstcuts.blogspot.com Twitter @uweagainstcuts Facebook

Sheffield Occupation facebook

Occupy Warwick facebook

Liverpool University Occupation  facebook occupyliverpooluniversity@gmail.com

Occupy RHUL facebook

Solidarity messages to: info@saveueamusic.org

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