The government is scrapping maintenance grants, without thinking of the approximately 500,000 students who currently rely on them. With talks of a Teaching Excellence Framework, fees could shoot up higher than ever before. On November 4th, Anglia Ruskin Students’ Union is going to be marching the streets of London with thousands of people to demand free education and living grants for all.
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How dare the government make us feel like we don’t deserve Higher Education, how dare they discriminate against the students that need their help the most, how dare they think we will stand for this. We’re saying no to rises tuition fees, to scrapping maintenance grants, to turning people into demographics. We are not a demographic: we are a movement.
Be a part of this movement with us. We want to march with you and shout with you, and together make a statement that no government could possibly ignore. All three of our campuses together could make such a loud noise: let’s use it.
We’ll be posting details about travel and protest rights soon. In the meantime, take a look at our official statement written by the SU President, Sammi Whitaker.
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“The National Campaign Against Fees & Cuts is a network of student and education worker activists, founded at a convention at University College London in February 2010. Since then, the NCAFC has helped activists on campuses up and down the country organise radical direct action against tuition fees, education cuts and wider cuts to public services. The NCAFC has played an integral role in the movement that developed from November 10th 2010 following the occupation of Millbank Tower, calling several national days of action that mobilised hundreds of thousands of students. We have organised several large national demonstrations. In November 2011, we organised a national demonstration against the government’s higher education white paper, bringing 10,000 students to the streets of London. In November 2014, we led the mobilisation of another demonstration of 10,000 students, marching for free education.
We fight for free, democratic education and universal grants, funded by the taxation of the rich and business.
NCAFC decides policy and actions at its conference, and via a national committee, which is open to all to attend, and which consists of 14 permanent members with 1 permanent delegate from each Region and each Liberation Campaign. We have no major financial backers, permanent headquarters or full-time staff. Our activists are students, recent graduates or workers and our only financial support comes through individual donations or from trade union branches which support us, including numerous Unison, PCS and RMT branches.”