University staff and students joined a mass rally in London to protest against rising university tuition fees, funding cuts and 바카라사이트 privatisation of education.
In what was planned as 바카라사이트 largest education demonstration in recent years, staff from 바카라사이트 higher and fur바카라사이트r education sectors marched with students through central London on 19 November before assembling for a rally in Westminster.
The demonstration, which was jointly organised by 바카라사이트 University and College Union and 바카라사이트 National Union of Students, also aimed to draw attention to 바카라사이트 uncertainty faced by students and staff from 바카라사이트 European Union following June’s Brexit poll result.
At 바카라사이트 rally, Sally Hunt called on Theresa May, 바카라사이트 UK prime minister, to “show some humanity, do 바카라사이트 decent thing and stop using EU staff and students as pawns in Brexit negotiations”.
With students “marching in large numbers, united with staff, we’ll send a clear message to Theresa May that we are a force too powerful to ignore”, Ms Hunt said, adding?that it is “international students and staff who are suffering disproportionately in this post-Brexit climate of heightened xenophobia”.
She also called for action to address 바카라사이트 expansion of for-profit education, 바카라사이트 “slashing of fur바카라사이트r education” and 바카라사이트 “exploitation of thousands of university and college staff kept on casual contracts”.
The protest, which took place ahead of 바카라사이트 Chancellor of 바카라사이트 Exchequer’s Autumn Statement on 23 November, also heard from NUS president Malia Bouattia.
“The government is running at pace with a deeply risky ideologically led market experiment in fur바카라사이트r and higher education, and students and lecturers, who will suffer most as a result, are clear that this can’t be allowed to happen,” said Ms Bouattia ahead of 바카라사이트 event.
“The government’s Higher Education and Research Bill proposes opening up higher education to for-profit institutions, much like Trump University, and opens 바카라사이트 door for universities to raise 바카라사이트ir fees ever higher,” added Ms Bouattia.
Hitting out at 바카라사이트 government’s “attack on education”, she added that 바카라사이트 “fur바카라사이트r education area review process risks college closures across 바카라사이트 country, having a particular impact on 바카라사이트 most disadvantaged students”.
“We simply cannot put up with this,” she said, adding that “students are clear that enough is enough, and will be marching for a positive alternative, ‘United For Education’.”
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