Skip to content or view screen version

UK Education Newswire Archive

Full article

Oxford Education Campaign meeting!

23-01-2011 18:46

Weekly consensus based campaign meetings @ Ruskin College, Walton St
Oxford OX1 2HE - 8pm Monday

Full article

Book banning in Italy; backtracking on human rights

22-01-2011 19:25

Authorities in Italy have sent out a list of author's whose work they want removed from the shelves because of their support for a contraversial activist called Cesare Battisti. Based on a press release from an Italian group campaigning against what is happening, who have requested global publicity on the matter.

Full article

Walk out on Wednesday 26th!

22-01-2011 16:06

Please find a bulletin, not from any group, attached. Text follows:

Full article | 1 addition

Student walk-outs on Wednesday 26th - bulletin to print and distro!

21-01-2011 21:26

This is the bulletin that came out of the class struggle working group at Network X. We'd like to encourage you to consider printing a few off, and giving them out at your local college over Mon - Wed next week.

Full article

Sharing n Caring!

21-01-2011 21:20

Sumac Skill Share Days every Thursday at Sumac Centre in Nottingham

Full article | 1 comment

Network X call out for the 26th March TUC demo

20-01-2011 12:06

A call out for creative disobedience, an example of unmanageable protest for the March 26th TUC demo.

Full article | 4 comments

Forced heavy handed eviction of University of Birmingham occupiers

18-01-2011 15:53

Last night students determined to remain in occupation and create an area for free and constructive debate, where removed by excessive force by university security assist by the police.

I’m proud to say the student involved, remained peaceful in spite of personal injuries and very distressing scenes.

This report is compiled by testimonies of a UCU representative present and three students who are pressing charges of assault but, wish to remain unnamed for now.

During the period 18:30-19:00 students were removed from the maths-physics bridge, where on their first day back at university they had immediately re-occupied the university.

Full article

Rawmarsh school teachers strike against job cuts in Rotherham, UK

17-01-2011 18:24

Teachers at Rawmarsh Community School (RCS) in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, started a three-day strike January 12, in protest over proposed job cuts. A one day stoppage took place the previous week, shutting the school.

Full article | 3 comments

Occupation At Birmingham University

17-01-2011 13:19

We are not being allowed to get anyone in or out of our occupation please ring one of these two numbers to voice your complaint: 01214144536 or 0121 4143344

Full article | 2 comments

Petition to cut military spending not education!

06-01-2011 15:53

Want to take a stand in protecting education and condemning wasteful military spending? SIGN THE PETITION HERE!

Full article | 9 comments

Student demonstrations: Advice for those wanted by Police.

04-01-2011 23:42

There are reports of individuals who the police are searching for in order to make an arrest. Some people may believe they do not have much chance of escaping arrest due to the amount of details the police have on you (such as your name) and may not want to go underground and are therefore considering handing themselves in. The writers of this article (All Colours Are Beautiful) would like to share this advice:

Full article

World Peace Declared

31-12-2010 15:02

World Peace Declared!

Full article

2005: How Quebec Students Forced the Govt to Back Down

29-12-2010 23:16

Canada: Students blockade the Port of Montréal, 2005 - Article about blockade by students in Canada striking against cuts in education.

Lessons to be thought about and learned from for the 2011 student protests.

Full article

Vigil to support the occupation of the Kent University Senate building!

29-12-2010 16:43

Information regarding a vigil in support of the occupation of the University of Kent Senate building.

Full article

East End community defender Kay Jordan

29-12-2010 01:11

Long standing community campaigner, architect and friend to ordinary people in need of help Kay Jordan left us in the evening of Tuesday 28 December 2010

Full article | 2 comments

Postmodernism in the Streets: the tactics of protest are changing

28-12-2010 13:05

Whilst MPs voted for the privatisation of Higher Education on December 9th, another British institution – the protest march – was undergoing a transformative moment.

Outside, protesters caught in a police “containment area” were experiencing, many for the first time, a political education: that property comes before people; the rights of the former supersede those of the latter. The extent to which the mainstream media has mourned for windows and car doors, for the monarchy and the mausoleums, is more than facile hypocrisy. It is an indictment of a society which has internalised the value systems of capital to the point that a young student being arbitrarily batoned into brain surgery is largely ignored, and outrage is reserved for property vandalism over police violence. Yet ultimately, that violence is also an argument that we must change tack.

Full article | 1 comment

X3 - X-Tended Account

26-12-2010 16:15

A friends brilliant account of the student happenings.

Please read it on  http://uloccupation.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/x3-x-tended-account/ its full of different links that bring it too life!!!!

Full article

The Wombles

26-12-2010 03:48

The Wombles

Full article | 18 comments

Police came for me at 5am

23-12-2010 14:04

On the 17/12/10 (Last friday) The police came to my house with a warrant for my arrest. They came like the stasi in the night, getting me out of bed at 5am in the morning.

They had a warrant for my arrest, with the charge of Affray and Conspiracy to affray.

Full article | 4 comments

Newcastle: HSBC 2 Defence Campaign launched for men arrested in anti-cuts demos

22-12-2010 12:50

Occupation of Eldon Square shopping centre
A defence campaign has been launched in Newcastle to oppose the charges against two demonstrators, Mark Pearson and Patrick Reay, who came out on 18 December 2010 alongside hundreds of others, to demonstrate against government cuts to education and other public services, benefits and jobs.