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Demands on Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University (Cambridge Defend Education)

Demands on Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University (Cambridge Defend Education)

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Started by Anonymous 14 years, 10 months ago
1. To publicly condemn the White Paper, to repudiate marketising vision that underpins it and reject the collusion with corporate interests which it seeks to further. 2. To guarantee no course closures. 3. To guarantee no job cuts and no adverse changes to staff terms and conditions; and to recognise the University and College Union. 4. To provide maintenance grants to all students. 5. To guarantee no cuts to library, student support or learning resources. 6. To guarantee no cuts to access schemes, which have become even more vital in light of the government's attacks on Further Education. 7. To guarantee that the university will aspire to become a public, not-for-profit body, with transparent democratic structures granting real control to staff and students. 8. To express no confidence in the Minister of State for Universities and Science, David Willetts.

Updates

November 12, 2011

The scale of this response confirms that the university community rejects the current path toward marketization. We are now preparing to present these demands directly to the administration to ensure our collective position is formally recognized.

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Marcus Wang
14 years ago Featured

don't touch the library or the staff. cambridge is supposed to be about education not just making money off us

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James Das
14 years ago Featured

Willetts has been a total disaster. Needs to go.

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Sarah Holt
14 years ago Featured

Ridiculous that they keep pushing these corporate interests. Keep teaching about the actual students and workers for once.