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Students in Québec, Canada have been on strike for three months against the government’s attempts to raise university tuition fees, while Chilean students are protesting for reforms in the public…
May 12, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
Sally Turner Monday 26 March was the first day of Alfie Meadows’ trial for ‘violent disorder’ after police beat him into a near-fatal coma – a crime for which no…
April 4, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
Anyone reading the #NCAFC Twitter feed over the weekend will have got the impression that the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts descended into uncontrollable orgy of bickering and sectarianism. The…
January 31, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
The government has dropped controversial proposals to make it easier for private businesses to set up universities, after several months of protest by students. The White Paper drawn up last…
January 26, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
Dan Edmonds reports on the latest round of students going through the courts after the protests AS THE courts prepare to give recent alleged rioters punitive sentences and the right…
August 31, 2011 / Comments Off / Read More
A year after students took to the streets, the fight for the future of education in Britain continues. As young people are confronted with few university places and even fewer…
August 31, 2011 / Comments Off / Read More
Massive student protests and strikes have rocked Chile as people fight back against education cuts by the unpopular right wing government, write Jeremy Dewar and Dave Stockton…
August 31, 2011 / Comments Off / Read More
A mass movement of school and university students has Chile’s right wing president Sebastián Piñera on the ropes. Jeremy Dewar reports…
August 10, 2011 / Comments Off / Read More
Another outrageous prison sentence has been handed down to a protester, writes Rachel Brooks Charlie Gilmour, son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, has been jailed for 16 months for…
July 16, 2011 / Comments Off / Read More
From anticuts.com We have grave concerns about the recent Ncafc conference – both how it was organised and the outcome of the conference, which imposed a new set of structures…
June 8, 2011 / Comments Off / Read More