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Protest against Tuition Fees and the Marketisation of Higher Education, and For a Free Education


A 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





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