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| Protest against Tuition Fees and the Marketisation of Higher Education, and For a Free EducationA teach-in on the state on higher education today, set in the context of the monetisation (fees), marketisation, commodification and capitalisation of higher education services in the UK today Cambridge University Teach-in: Action Against Top-up Fees A Student Action Week event organised, by 'Cambridge Education Not for Sale' Cambridge Education Not for Sale - Students Occupy a Lecture Theatre Indymedia report and pictures of the Teach-In Cambridge University Teach-in: Action Against Top-up Fees A Student Action Week event Tuesday 24th October 5.00pm onwards Lecture Block Room 1 The Sidgwick Site (next to Newnham College) Sidgwick Avenue University of Cambridge CB3 9DF 5.00: Opening Speech by Joyce Canaan (University of Central England) – Popular Education and Marketisation 6.00: Address by Daniel Randall – National Union of Students – The Current Situation on Fees and the Need for Free Education and Resistance to the Marketisation of Higher Education Thereafter there was a ‘Teach In’ … lectures and presentations by Ruth Rikowski and Ed Emery Ruth Rikowski gave 2 talks: 1. What is happening to education and student life today? 2. Globalisation, Information and Libraries (talking about her book) Also, there was a slide show on 'Art and Anarchism' by Martyn Everett And a film from the Autonomous Study Project A week after the event, Donald MacLeod interviewed Alison Richard, the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, in The Guardian (higher education), on 31st October 2006, p. 11. In regard to fee capping, the MacLeod says: "...she is in no hurry to talk about raising the £3,000 fees cap. The government has undertaken to reconsider it in 2008/09." Interview with Alison Richard, the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University Print Friendly - Print Friendly with links |
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