Unique and popular Undergraduate Human Rights degree to be scrapped by University in spending cuts, students rise up to make their voices heard!

 Roehampton University in London has this week announced that it is to axe its unique Human Rights undergraduate programme which was awarded 4.5 million in government funding and which is one of only several institutions offering an undergraduate degree in Human Rights studies. 
    Roehampton University is currently home to Crucible - the only government-recognised centre of excellence in teaching and learning in the field of human rights in the country, students from across Europe and the UK come to the University to study on the popular undergraduate programme which explores the concepts of freedom and equality, crimes against humanity and the International Criminal Court. The programme is supported by organisations such as Amnesty International and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and was the first of its kind.
    The axing of the Human Rights Degree is the first in a planned series of cuts that the university is rumoured to be making many of which are thought to impact upon humanitites subjects.
   Staff and students are embarking upon a large campaign to save their Human Rights department which not only educates those directly enrolled on the course but which creates a general sense of community and awareness amongst the university staging events and talks relating to Fair trade,current affairs and the environment.
   Students will be staging a large protest to make their voices heard on Thursday 11th November during an international symposium for human rights which is to be held at the university. There will be a meeting to discuss action on campus on Tuesday 9th November at 1pm. Further details can be found on the Save Human Rights at Roehampton Facebook Page.

http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/undergraduate-courses/human-rights/
 
 http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/news/events/november-2010/Contested_Boundaries.html