Oppose the repression in Oaxaca

From February 12-18th, ENS will be supporting the second annual No Sweat/Students Against Sweatshops week of action on UK campuses.

Part of the focus of this year’s activity will be solidarity with the workers’ and social struggles in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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£10,000 per year fees threat

By Sofie Buckland, NUS National Executive

Many vice-chancellors are preparing a campaign for a big rise in top-up fees, according to the results of a survey published in the Guardian on 18 January.
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No to religious law in Iraqi Kurdistan

From the Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq

To all women’s group, secularist oganisations, trade unions and political activists,

We need your help to prevent Islamic Sharia law being implemented in Kurdistan.
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Women Against Rape

A statement from Women Against Rape

Dear Sisters & Friends

It was announced this week in The Independent (see below) that the government is considering whether to change the law on anonymity of women who reported rape, and even considering making a DNA database of women who are deemed to have made a false allegation.
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ESOL Alliance conference

4-6pm, UCU HQ, 27 Britannia Street, London WC1X 9JP

Save ESOL - stop cuts in English language rights!

From the University and College Union. Although ENS has reservations about working alongisde organisations representing college management, we support UCU’s efforts to defend their members and ESOL classes against cuts.

Concern is mounting rapidly over new funding restrictions on English as a Second Language. On 15 January UCU, working with the AoC, ACM, NATECLA, NIACE, Refugee Council, Unison, USDAW and others, is convening a meeting to launch a campaign for the restoration of entitlement. Travel expenses for delegates from outside London will be met (max two per UCU branch).
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Sussex University in new year witch-hunt

From the Sussex Students Solidarity Committee

The University of Sussex has threatened several students with
disciplinary proceedings and legal action after 80 students staged an occupation of the university’s library last November, in protest at cuts in resources and teaching time.
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How do we get a radical, campaigning student movement?

A day of political discussion, training and planning for student activists called by Education Not for Sale, No Sweat and Students Against Sweatshops.

11.30-3.30pm, TGWU Transport House, Theobalds Road, Holborn, London

For more information email or ring 07815 490 837

How do we get a radical, campaigning student movement?

A day of political discussion, training and planning for student activists organised by Education Not for Sale, No Sweat and Students Against Sweatshops. Come and join other student activists to discuss how can we argue for, organise for and campaign for radical ideas in the student movement.
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Israeli students strike against tuition fees

The article is from Ha’aretz, an Israeli national newspaper. It can be found online here.

University students were intensifying their campaign against the Shochat Committee on Reform in Higher Education by shutting down ten institutions of higher learning on Wednesday.
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