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What Price Education?

“I am totally depressed as I believe a huge amount of work has been totally undone … support structures to assist the most vulnerable have been undermined, which will mean that discipline and pastoral care structures will be affected”
- Principal, boys’ secondary school, Leinster

Massive Protests in Dublin - Sat. 21 Feb.

Free Education for Everyone (FEE), a
student group fighting the reintroduction of fees and cutbacks in third
level education, is calling on all secondary and third level students
to join the ICTU National Demonstration this saturday to show
solidarity with all workers facing pension levys, job losses and pay
cuts.

The Irish Congress of Trade
Unions (ICTU), the umberalla group of 55 unions representing about
600,000 members in the Republic of Ireland, has called the February

Bertie Ahern Stopped from Speaking at NUI, Galway, Ireland.

Bertie Ahern (ex-Taoiseach - ie Prime Minister)was due to speak at the Literary and Debating society of NUI Galway tonight. The event was cancelled due to student protest and scuffles with the Gardaí.

Ireland - Occupations of Government Party's Offices by Students

Over 20 students from UCD have occupied the office of Paul Gogarty Green Party TD for Dublin Mid-West and Spokesperson on Education in Lucan Village. This is in protest at the increase in college registration fees to €1500 per year and the possible full re-introduction of fees.

Against Commercialism in Education

This essay first appeared on indymedia.ie.

Thousands March in Columbia for Better Education

 

This video can be downloaded in better quality form archive.org. Click Here.

 

12,000 rally in Dublin against Education Budget Cutbacks

According to the Irish Times 'At least 5,000 teachers, parents
and students gathered outside Leinster House this evening to express
their opposition to Government spending cutbacks.' More like 12,000
according to organisers. The response to budget cutbacks have shaken
the political establishent. Opposition though has been mostly
sectional, first pensioners, later on the same day Students and tonight
parents and teachers.

Support for group in Liberia needed

There is an NGO located in the capital of Liberia (Monrovia) called Youth for Community Academic and Development Services (YOCADS). A friend of mine has been in touch with the executive director (called Alphonso Weah) for months now and he is very keen to organize protests on Nov.5th in Liberia.

Violation of human rights and the criminalization of Colombian students

For
some years the student movement in Colombia has been the victim of
systematic persecution on the part of state agencies (DAS, OTP, CTI,
ESMAD, Army and National Police) and parastatals. In our memory are the
murders of 14 students between the years 2002 to 2006, the many
arrests, disappearances, torture and displacement that in recent years
have been filed against the students, or made subject to such agencies. 

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