Sunday, November 13, 2011

Tuition fees go-ahead marks the betrayal of a generation | Michael Chessum

3:27 AM | Posted by Free Game Zone | Edit Post

No current political resistance to privatization of education. We have no choice but to try to break the coalition

been seven months since the coalition government has pushed your changes to higher education in Parliament by a majority of 21. The privatization of higher education as recommended by Browne critical is the creation of a market for the shares and a 80% reduction in the education budget, tripling the cost of college tuition.

students could not have made the opposition more clearly. From November 10, 2010 to January 29, 2011, hundreds of thousands of us repeatedly took to the streets and occupied the campus in what was the largest youth rebellion Britain has seen in decades. Many were students at the school, leaving their classes to defend their future education.

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Tuesday of the Office of Fair Access to mark the final chapter of the greatest betrayal of youth in post-war British politics. From 2012, if you go to a prestigious university, he was riddled with debts of over £ 50,000 - tuition, plus living expenses. The best, most students will pay double the current rate.

School students for the first time

is now facing a cold calculation of whether or not it is worth attending the best universities as "graduate premium" - the amount you can get win for life after graduating - falls below the cost of doing one in the first place. Some students are completely intimidated. Regardless of culture and personally rewarding to go to college, never mind the principle that education benefits society as a whole.

In response, the Government cites an unproven idea that the scope and scholarships cover a strengthened version of what has always been a structural bias against the poorest of the study. Some universities have promised fee waivers for the poorest applicants, making his way to the debt - but this policy does not work, oddly enough, to put money directly into the hands of those who need it, rather than to cover government spending on the program initial rate loans. Elements even apparently progressive coalition program for universities have been driven by increased access, but saving cash by the central government.
  • Moreover, the importance of "access agreement" is nothing compared to socially regressive policies have sought the coalition: the abolition of the maintenance of education was an attack against underprivileged schools and students. All this is of little comfort to those currently in the London Metropolitan University, the largest university of the working class and ethnic diversity in the UK, engaged in a 70% reduction in prices, in largely due to the funding policies of the coalition. The cuts imposed by the government have dramatically fallen disproportionately on the most recent, more universities on training, rather than the rich, invest in research.
These sound like the realities of implementing a program of a political class that has forgotten the value of higher education as we know it - both in terms of social justice and the existence of good public education.

Each resistance to the privatization of higher education offered by the political class failed in 2010. First, New Labour has introduced and increased rates - despite the National Union of Students (NUS) and unprecedented in my opinion disastrous engagement to get rid of the principle of free education and to negotiate a contribution of higher education. Then, the Liberal Democrats betrayed his campaign promise - that every Liberal Democrat MP signed - who oppose the fees. Instead, it offers students a new agreement marketised, replacing the social mission of universities to atomized consumer choice.

now all regulatory aspects of this new agreement means has failed: the Office of Fair Access, staff shortages and symbolic content that was not prevented a single university to collect the amount total of £ 9,000. In the absence of a reconsideration of any major political party, the protest generation of 2010 should go ahead with a radical program of mass mobilization and direct action. Simply, we have no choice but to try to break the coalition.
Since we do not fight alone. The June 30 strike by the NUT, UCU and other marked a new record for the fight against austerity in Britain. Come October, several unions have left in protest against government attacks on pensions and public services.

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