EDUCATION NOT FOR SALE IN 2006-7

2006/7 is a year in which the New Labour government (whether it continues to be led by Blair or if his political clone Brown replaces him) will redouble its assaults on education and public services. It will introduce top-up fees in Higher Education, continue the employer-led “vocationalisation” of the FE sector and, unless it is stopped by industrial action, will roll out its plans to essentially privatise the entire secondary education sector too.

Now, more than ever, students in Britain need a union through which they can resist these attacks and go on the offensive for a different vision of education and society. Activists who want to see such a union need to organise in grassroots campaigns as well as inside NUS to reclaim it from its current bureaucratic leadership.

Education Not for Sale is a democratic activist network which aims to facilitate such work nationally. Watch this space for resources, discussion, actions and reports on the fight for free education in 2006/2007.

Coming soon:

Briefings on

Reports of

To get in touch with ENS, email us at info@free-education.org.uk or contact the ENS supporters on the NUS National Executive Committee:

Sofie Buckland - sofie.buckland@nus.org.uk - 07815 490 837

Joe Rooney - joe.rooney@nus.org.uk - 07736 456 639

THIS IS NOT A LEAVING SPEECH

I found it fitting that my last few months in office at NUS were defined politically by a dual struggle around the AUT/NATFHE (now UCU) dispute; a struggle, on the one hand, to win our membership to a basic position of support for the dispute and, on the other, a struggle against the majority of the NUS leadership whose trajectory was to chip away at and retreat from the stance of support that NUS as a whole had taken.
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27TH MAY-2ND JUNE LIVING WAGE ACTIVISTS SPEAKER TOUR

In which student activism is given a touch of class

Not a lot of people know this, but I'm actually American. Well, strictly I'm dual-nationality Anglo-American, but this does make me a bona fide American citizen with an American passport and the right to vote in the next American election (lucky me). I'm not saying this to prepare the ground for an attempt to run for International Students' Officer, but to explain why I'm particularly interested in American student politics.
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