http://www.free-education.org.uk Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:34:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en More swashbuckling goings-on from the world of the NUS bureaucracy... (By Daniel Randall, NUS Trustee. In a strictly - STRICTLY - personal capacity...) http://www.free-education.org.uk/?p=689 Education Not for Sale is now supporting the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts, founded at the National Convention Against Fees and Cuts in February (the next Convention is 6 November). For more info and regular updates see the NCAFC website. http://www.free-education.org.uk/?p=688 Yes, it's another controversial Trustee Board report from Daniel "shouldn't he have moved on from NUS by now?" Randall, raising the red banner of revolutionary socialism on a committee he doesn't think should exist in a union he doesn't really believe is a union any more and which hardly anyone ... http://www.free-education.org.uk/?p=687 By Daniel Randall, NUS Trustee Board (originally published at www.workersliberty.org) Despite a background of impressive grassroots struggles against cuts and fees, NUS conference 2010 (Newcastle, April 13-15) saw the Blairite leadership of the national union entrench itself and push further down the road of bureaucratisation, depoliticisation and capitulation to the government. Even ... http://www.free-education.org.uk/?p=686 By Daniel Randall, NUS Trustee Board, and Chris Marks, Hull University VP Education, NCAFC northern co-convenor and candidate for NUS President This year's NUS conference (13-15 April, in Newcastle, the first not to take place in Blackpool for decades) meets against the background of huge cuts to higher education – some ... http://www.free-education.org.uk/?p=685 Last term, six Sussex students were suspended for taking part in the occupation of their VC’s office in protest against cuts. Following a hundreds-strong occupation and a thousand-strong general meeting, coinciding with a UCU strike, which voted no confidence in university management, they have been reinstated. The battle against cuts ... http://www.free-education.org.uk/?p=684 Remember when the NUS leadership sold the idea of the Trustee Board to us? They talked about filling the (semi-elected) External Trustee posts with NGO activists, education sector trade unionists and other such inoffensive individuals. The reality has proven somewhat different. http://www.free-education.org.uk/?p=683 As mass student protests coincided with a UCU strike, Sussex University management has backed down and reinstated six students suspended for anti-cuts activity. From the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts: As staff at Sussex go on strike against cuts today, we are happy to announce several important victories that the anti-cuts ... http://www.free-education.org.uk/?p=682 The results of the Guardian's survey of the pay received by universities' top officials are vomit-inducing. At a time when university workers and students are facing massive cuts, more than 80 university heads now 'earn' more than £200,000. 19 get more than £300,000. Some have received 15 or 20 percent ... http://www.free-education.org.uk/?p=681 Sussex University students have occupied again in defence of six suspended student activists. What follows is from the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts. Below that is an update from the Sussex occupiers. See the Defend Sussex blog for frequent updates. This just in from Sussex. More information to follow as we ... http://www.free-education.org.uk/?p=680