19-10-2004 18:26
CBC Airs Documentary: The World According to Bush
Download and watch this excellent documentary on the Bush Administration which complements and supports Michael Moore's film, Farenheit 911.
08-09-2004 11:28
Sustainable Transport?
New sustainability website www.grownupgreen.org.uk which went live this summer, is pleased to announce a bumper package of articles posted this week. With rising fuel prices in the news, one theme is transport with features such as alternatively fuelled cars, an inner city tram network, freight on British waterways, cycling and even walking.
01-03-2004 12:43
Graduates courted by militarists
Graduates are to be courted into joining militarist adventures and arms manufacturers. Perhaps someone should attend and tell these companies and organisations what they think of luring young people into such destructive occupations.
28-02-2004 13:52
World Bank Education Policy: Market Liberalism Meets Ideological Conservatism
This article gives a good overview of neoliberal educational reforms in Argentina during the glory years of the mid-to-late 1990s, before the near-total collapse of the country's economy due to privatization, structural adjustment, dollarization and capital flight in 2001.
26-02-2004 16:24
Video from the Cambridge AUT picket, strike, and CUSU rally against top-up fees (25 Feb 2004). Some background and interviews (7.37min, 5.44Mb).
Cambridge AUT & CUSU pickets and protests
Video from the Cambridge AUT picket, strike, and CUSU rally against top-up fees (25 Feb 2004). Some background and interviews (7.37min, 5.44Mb).
25-02-2004 22:46
OCCUPATION BY ESSEX STUDENTS! DIRECT ACTION AGAINST FEES!
Essex students occupy and shut down office of Ivor Crew, top fees proponent! Staff strike stays solid! Resistance growing to market forces destroying education!
25-02-2004 12:10
The impact of fees
Who benefits from access to university? Who will benefit should top up fees be introduced? These are the main questions that have been raised in the recent debate on fees.
23-02-2004 10:20
AUT strike on Wednesday
The association of university teachers (the union of accademic or non academic university staff) is going to strike this week. The dispute relates to pay cuts and the breakdown of the national salary negotiations.
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03-02-2004 15:01
Vigil against tuition fees in Cambridge
The Cambridge University Student Union continue their protests against tuition fees.
30-01-2004 09:28
Anne Campbell, Cambridge MP, chickens out of vote (again)
Cambridge Evening news reports that Anne Campbell, the Cambridge MP, chose to abstain from voting on top-up fees. Apparently she was moved by two letters from students telling her that top-up fees are either good, or do not affect access! She did not mention all the students that oppose them :)
29-01-2004 21:37
Strange as it may seem, amidst the tuition fees debate, another fight is going on behind the scenes. The association of University Teachers (includes non teaching staff in education) is balloting its members to strike over pay.
Cambridge and national AUT ballots its members for industrial action
Strange as it may seem, amidst the tuition fees debate, another fight is going on behind the scenes. The association of University Teachers (includes non teaching staff in education) is balloting its members to strike over pay.
08-12-2003 01:50
>> mindset to put such unpopular subjects in their true
>> perspective. There are many much more familiar with
>> the complexities of climatology who could, and probably
>> will, do a much better job, and be largely ignored.
>> It is most frustrating as all I want to do is obtain a sound
>> understanding of the impact of human activities on the
>> operation of Planet Earth, and we seem to have done a
>> very rapid job on the climate over the past century.
>> .. (snip)
Learn and share knowledge on Paleontology and Climate
>> People have to be prepared to think and work on their>> mindset to put such unpopular subjects in their true
>> perspective. There are many much more familiar with
>> the complexities of climatology who could, and probably
>> will, do a much better job, and be largely ignored.
>> It is most frustrating as all I want to do is obtain a sound
>> understanding of the impact of human activities on the
>> operation of Planet Earth, and we seem to have done a
>> very rapid job on the climate over the past century.
>> .. (snip)
25-11-2003 12:39
Oxford University Student Union is organising a protest for free education on Wednesday at 1pm on the steps of the Clarendon Building (Broad Street)
Student Unions respond to Vice Chancellors' pro fees letter
This is a letter from the student unions of the five Universities whose Vice Chancellors came out in favour of top up fees in a letter to The Times.Oxford University Student Union is organising a protest for free education on Wednesday at 1pm on the steps of the Clarendon Building (Broad Street)
22-11-2003 14:17
Prescott Approves Cambridge Uni Animal Research Site
On Thu 20 Nov, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister approved the planning application of Cambridge University for a primate research facility in Girton because it helps to further government policy. This comes despite South Cambs DC originally refusing it for good reasons.
05-11-2003 13:28
Free education demo this thursday
Charles Clarke, Education Minister, comes to Cambridge!
24-10-2003 11:04
In an open meeting the Kings College Student Union (Cambridge) has just
decided to support direct action taking the form of a rent strike, to
protest against the rent rises and the increased college costs that are
dumped on the students.
Kings College Cambridge goes on rent strike
In an open meeting the Kings College Student Union (Cambridge) has just decided to support direct action taking the form of a rent strike, to
protest against the rent rises and the increased college costs that are
dumped on the students.
21-10-2003 10:27
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/cambridge/2003/10/279225.html . For the benefit of new Cambridge students, and the rest of the world it is worth reiterating how last year Kings College tried to kick them out, using bogus reason and a bogus process. This incident, that was qualified by some as a pure political trial, happened at the same time as Edward Said, the world renowned academic, was refused a honorary fellowship, apparently for being too vocal on issues surrounding the Middle East conflict.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/09/278229.html
Kings College and Political Reaction: a primer
Some of you might have noticed that the Anti Capitalist Action (ACA) group is functional again http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/cambridge/2003/10/279225.html . For the benefit of new Cambridge students, and the rest of the world it is worth reiterating how last year Kings College tried to kick them out, using bogus reason and a bogus process. This incident, that was qualified by some as a pure political trial, happened at the same time as Edward Said, the world renowned academic, was refused a honorary fellowship, apparently for being too vocal on issues surrounding the Middle East conflict. http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/09/278229.html
15-10-2003 21:55