Photo: NSW Education Action Network/Facebook.
Students took to the streets on May 12, budget day, to call for free education and an end to the fee deregulation bill.
Australian universities
Photo: NSW Education Action Network/Facebook.
Students took to the streets on May 12, budget day, to call for free education and an end to the fee deregulation bill.
In a period of so-called 鈥渂udget emergency鈥 when deep funding cuts are being imposed on universities and scientific research, the federal government has managed to find $4 million for a 鈥渃onsensus centre鈥 headed by advocate for climate inaction Bj酶rn Lomborg.
The $13 million centre will form part of the University of Western Australia鈥檚 (UWA) business school, with the Commonwealth contributing $4 million over four years.
The motto of the University of Wollongong (UOW) promises 鈥淧ersonalised Experiences: World Class Results鈥. It would do well to tell the public which persons in the institution availed themselves of the experience of authorising political donations of $26,175 in the last four years, and what world class results they expected.
The signature on contribution donations in 2009 was the university鈥檚 director of government relations, Canio Fierravanti, brother of Liberal Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells.
Coincidentally, 82% of the donations since late-2010 have gone to the Liberal Party.
To date, Vice-Chancellor of University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Attila Brungs has supported Prime Minister Tony Abbott's fee deregulation legislation. Last year fee deregulation 鈥渃ould have some positive impacts鈥 and result in 鈥渢eaching quality going up鈥. Arguing that it is positive that students finish their course with $100,000 debt is a hard sell, and Brungs felt the heat as students at UTS signed petitions calling on him to oppose it.
In the lead-up to the first global divestment day on February 14, the University of Sydney announced it will reduce the carbon footprint of its investments by 20% within three years by divesting from heavy polluters.
But it has shied away from divesting from fossil fuels altogether.
The decision follows a sustained student-led campaign, with support from Greenpeace, that has been urging the university to completely divest its investments in fossil fuels.
The University of Western Sydney Bankstown Resistance activists Mia Sanders and Ian Escandor have been elected to the Bankstown Student Campus Council (SCC) and the campus magazine CrUWSible editorial board. The results were announced on October 31.
Sanders told 91自拍论坛 Weekly she believes students related to the 鈥淩ES Out West鈥 ticket because it emphasised fighting the federal government鈥檚 education attacks and rejecting discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people, women and refugees.
The University of Western Sydney Resistance club released this statement on October 28.
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Student campus councillor at UWS Bankstown Mia Sanders has slammed the federal government鈥檚 which went before the Senate on October 28.
A student general meeting was held at the Bankstown campus of the University of Western Sydney on October 8, as part of the student campaign against the federal government鈥檚 $2.7 billion funding cuts to universities across Australia.
Students across the country held protest rallies against the federal government鈥檚 proposed cuts to higher education on August 20.
The cuts were announced by former prime minister Julia Gillard, but have been supported by PM Kevin Rudd, his new education minister Kim Carr and the Liberal opposition. With bipartisan support, these cuts will not be defeated without a fightback.
It's election season once again. For the first time in three years, the government is allocating us all our piece of democracy. People in suits are frantically talking about the issues of the day, in the hope that they can win over enough of us to put them into parliament.
Two of the defining issues in this battle are refugees and education.聽In both cases, candidates line up one after the other to show they are able to make the tough decisions.
Staff and students from universities around Australia held demonstrations on May 14 to protest the Gillard government鈥檚 $2.3 billion cuts to higher education. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) called a 24-hour strike which coincided with a student strike called by the National Union of Students. Students were encouraged to skip class for the day and join picket lines and rallies.
About 40 protesters rallied outside the University of New South Wales main library on April 30 to oppose the planned opening of a Max Brenner chocolate store on campus, and call for UNSW to adopt the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israeli apartheid.
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