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Occupation At Birmingham University

Stop Fees and Cuts Bham | 17.01.2011 13:19 | Education | Public sector cuts | Birmingham | World

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

Birmingham students have occupied the maths-physics bridge to protest against threatened redundancies and department cuts. We have turned this shared space into an open forum for a wider education debate.

We warmly invite you to come along and join in the occupation!

Why are we in occupation?

We are in occupation because the university are placing many jobs under threat, causing unnecessary stress to staff and causing long lasting damage to the development of the university Birmingham.

Staff Job losses are already affecting the student experience, job losses at sociology essentially reduced students degrees to what they could gather out of the library, theology cuts reduced the number of staff departmentally to 20.

Right now research fellows in the School of Education have been formally placed at risk of redundancy after a review that as unfair, inaccurate and rushed, find out more about this case on our blog see http://birminghamstudentsagainstcuts.blogspot.com/

We demand that the university makes a pledge to not make any unnecessary cuts, to run all reviews, with an external advisor, take into account staff/student criticism, give staff fair opportunities for input and take all decisions to democratic bodies like the senate.

For the education staff we believe this entire process must be restarted, this time done fairly and the staff in the education department given an apology, for the needless stress caused them by the manner of the review.

We demand the university does everything in it is power to keep fees down and pledges to make sure that education remains a resource that all can access. We demand that plans to cut scholarship budgets in College of Engineering and Physical Sciences are reversed.

We demand that the university is open with it cuts to Geography, biosciences, environmental sciences, the medical school, European Languages, Ancient and Medieval Studies, Theology and Religion and African Studies International Development Department that it has outlined in the sustainable excellence plan

We demand that the university criticizes the Browne review as a socially regressive plan and that David Eastwood apologises for his role in encouraging cuts and fees.

Stop Fees and Cuts Bham
- Homepage: http://birminghamstudentsagainstcuts.blogspot.com/

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Nice one

17.01.2011 18:26

good on you - sounds like a bit of an awkward place for them not to let anyone in or out of. If it's not awkward enough, maybe move somewhere else so they can't play you with that shit.

#solidarity! here's a to a new round of university occupations

peterpannier
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Birmingham University Needs to be Exposed!

18.01.2011 09:03

The directors also allow their managers to be racist bullies. In fact, it is encouraged and anyone who complains is smashed.

Concerned


Violent end to the occupation?

18.01.2011 09:26

Hi. Can anyone please shed more light on what sounds like to violent end to the occupation? Any news would be very much appreciated...

Bob
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