Students at New College Nottingham's High Pavement campus are planning a boycott of classes and demonstration tomorrow (Thursday 5th July). They are angry about proposed changes to the student timetable and the manner in which NCN Principal and CEO, Amarjit Basi, is implementing them. The protest is planned to last from 9am to 12pm at the Chaucer Street campus.

The students have made this statement:

Due to the proposed changes of timetable at high pavement. We are planning an official boycott of college next Thursday, hopefully with the backing of the student union, that would involve turning up to college at normal time, but not going to lessons. Instead, we're going to stand outside with signs and banners in order to make Amarjit realize we're serious

    -WE DO NOT want to be on separate lunch breaks to our friends
    -WE DO NOT want longer college days with more lessons
    -WE DO NOT want any more people in the college as it's full to bursting as it is.
    -WE DO want Adams and City students to receive a good education, just not at High Pavement

Students have said that they feel insulted by Mr Basi's moves which some feel are "compromising the quality of our education environment and resources by pushing, cramming and cattle hoarding us in one campus" and there are reports that heads of departments have been sacked as part of the changes.

As one student concludes, "colleges are not for the profit of the owners, nor are they are a source of employment. They are for educating people, and we are those people."