Venue: Kent Centre for Law, Gender & Sexuality Common Room, Eliot College (directions below)
When: 15:00 – 16:00 on Wednesday 11 December 2013
In the last 2 months university students and staff have protested against a range of university management policies including, for example, the closure of University of London student union, privatization of key university staff positions at the University of Sussex, and at the failure of employers to negotiate over the real terms pay cut for university staff of 13% since 2009.
In response a court injunction banning students from protesting on ULU campus for 6 months was obtained by the university against its own students, with other measures including arrests and bail conditions deployed to subdue student protest. 4 University of Sussex students have been suspended for protesting in favour of workers’ rights. And of course there have been 2 one day strikes by university staff.
11th December is a national day of action by student activists and this teach-in will include speakers such as:
• Jordan Amirkhani (School of English)
• Mairead Enright (Kent Law School)
• Emily Grabham (Kent Law School)
• Ben Hickman (School of English)
• Naomi Jones (Kent Law School student)
• Kat Peddie (School of English)
• Sinead Ring (Kent Law School)
• Simon Smith (School of English)
• University of Kent Student Union
• Sophie Vigneron (UCU and Kent Law School)
Directions: Go over the bridge, heading for Eliot College Porters Lodge. There are stairs down to the Eliot garden on your left (and a sign to the AHRC Centre for Law, Gender & Sexuality). Go down these stairs and the Centre is accessed through an external door on your right. The event will be signposted.
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