Sussex Uni: 300 staff and students demonstrate at lunchtime protest
Submitted by Joseph Kay on May 22 2012 20:13
Staff and students rallied against planned privatisation of over 10% of campus jobs in Library Square this lunchtime.
Staff had come equipped to disrupt a planned 'bidders meeting' with many carrying airhorns, only to discover management had moved the meeting to the Amex stadium across the road. With security and conference staff amongst those facing outsourcing, this suggests management don't feel able to hold such meetings on campus without the details leaking out and the threat of disruption.
University of Sussex plans to privatise over 10% of workforce
Submitted by Joseph Kay on May 16 2012 07:03
Last week university management announced plans to outsource 235 campus jobs. Workers and students are meeting to discuss their response.
The jobs facing privatisation include catering, porters and security staff.
Fighting Academies in Brent
Submitted by Chilli Sauce on May 14 2012 23:36
A short blog detailing to the nascent and so far trade union dominated fight against academy conversion in Brent, London.
Working in education myself and generally being pissed off since Michael Wilshaw's inflammatory comments, I spent an hour today alongside NUT activists leafleting students as they left Queen's Park Community school.
The Strike of the General Assembly: An Interview with Nicolas Phebus
A 2005 interview with Nicolas Phebus of the Collectif Anarchiste La Nuit (NEFAC-Quebec City) reflecting on the Québec student movement and its mobilization in the Spring of 2005 against cuts to education funding by the ruling Liberal Party under Jean Charest. Conducted by Aidan Conway and published in the second issue of the journal Upping the Anti.
[i]In this interview Nicolas Phebus reflects on the Québec student movement and its most recent mobilization in the Spring of 2005 against cuts to education funding by the ruling Liberal Party under Jean Charest.
The Black Square Manifesto
An anarchist manifesto published on Wednesday, 16th March at the beginning of the 2012 Quebec student general strike.
On co-option and infiltration
Who Dismisses the Teacher?
Submitted by Recomposition on May 3 2012 07:42
Our series on sleep and dreams continues with a post about stress and lack of sleep in the education industry.
I stare up at the computer’s clock on the right hand side of the screen, the numbers blaring at me, “10:45 pm.” I’ve finished the PowerPoint presentation for one class, but have nothing prepared for my other class.
The role of anarchists in the Quebec student movement: An interview with Rémi Bellemare-Caron
An interview with Rémi Bellemare-Caron of Union Communiste Libertaire (UCL) on anarchists' influence on the student movement, that of students on the anarchist scene and the prospects of the ongoing student strike in Quebec.
Linchpin: Can you tell us what your role is in the anarchist and student movements in Quebec?
Quebec protests reach rowdy new level (with updates in comments)
Submitted by Redwinged Blackbird on Apr 21 2012 18:48
Students in Quebec have been on strike since February. They have been upset about Premier Jean Charest's plan to add $1,625 to the annual cost of post-secondary education by 2016. But during Friday's confrontations, protesters signaled that the unrest was about more than university fees — it was about the general direction of the province.
From the Metro
MONTREAL – A spring of discontent in Quebec characterized by images of red-clad student protesters took on a darker tone Friday as downtown streets were disrupted by scenes of increasingly intense civil unrest.
Education towards heteronomy: a critical analysis of the reform of UK universities since 1978 - Gordon Finlayson and Danny Hayward
Submitted by Joseph Kay on Apr 17 2012 16:39
A detailed history of higher education reform in the UK. Looks at how universities have been increasingly subordinated to the economy and the state.
N.b. while libcom does not share the authors' apparent support for 'democracy and the rule of law' - with a university-centred 'civil society' as a third sphere alongside market and state - this is a useful account for understanding recent higher education reform and as background to the UK student protests of 2010.
Introduction
3 years of organizing under Right-to-Work
An account of organizing with teachers and the small successes and failures that had happened.
I live and work in a “right-to-work” state in the United States where all workers have the right to quit at anytime, yet they can also be terminated at any time. Where’s the benefit in that type of work environment?
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