Reclaim the Uni Action Thursday 5th
Reclaimer | 08.06.2008 15:14 | Education | Social Struggles
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Reclaimer | 08.06.2008 15:14 | Education | Social Struggles
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It isn't yours to reclaim
08.06.2008 19:23
Pete
The University Is A Community
09.06.2008 10:37
As it stands the public DO NOT run the university (though it is their taxes which fund it they have no control over how these funds are used). A man called Alan Gilbert does run the university. He is a neo-liberal who openly believes that the university should be run on a business model with a top down hierarchical management system.
Reclaim the Uni opposes the commodification of education and the exclusion of staff and students from all decision making processes within the university.
Reclaim the Uni exists to build a university in which staff, from cooks to lecturers, and students (including those who happen to a bit of paper that says they were born somewhere else on this planet) are involved in the running of the university.
Manchester Student
What makes you think
09.06.2008 19:48
If anyone wants to run a university according to their own rules they are perfectly free to found their own university.
Pete
Ownership is not a useful concept
10.06.2008 11:14
The University is run by a complex structure of committees, on which students and staff are represented. As an elected students union officer I have served on a number of these, and we certainly took our responsibilities seriously. The responsibility for the stewardship of the University is not only to its current Members, but also to future Members and the wider community. The wider community are also represented in a limited way.
Students should not consider themselves to be customers of a service, but members of an institution run for their mutual benefit. One of the problems with top up fees is that they engender a feeling of being a consumer of a service and makes students more likely to complain (and even litigate) and less likely to work within the University to put right things which are wrong.
The dispute here is not about the 'ownership' of the University, but about the policies of Prof Gilbert, the emphasis on 2015 at a percieved cost to the standard of current undergraduate teaching and disasters like the Arthur Lewis building.
I think the Administration welcomes these protests - they have revived interest in student governance, get the University into the press and provoke debate on governance issues amongst a previously apathetic student body.
Mike