Defend Education Birmingham

20/04/2016

Co Founder of Defend Education Birmingham and Current NUS Black Students' Officer, Malia Bouattia has been elected NUS President. A Huge advance for the movement. Congratulations!!!!

24/02/2016

Please sign and share this petition! The government are cutting Disabled Students Allowance which will severely effect the access we're able to get to higher education. This attack of disabled students can't be passed unchallenged!

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23/02/2016

Anyone who can come to the FE picket lines tomorrow, the one at Birmingham Met Matthew Bolton Campus (between Moor St. and Millennium Point) is from 7:30am!! http://www.bmetc.ac.uk/about-us/campuses/matthew-boulton-campus

13/11/2015

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/112077

If this green paper consultation reaches legislation unchanged it will be nothing less than the end of public education. It will be a fully-marketised Higher Education system, and moves towards uncapped fees. For more info on the policies threatened by the green paper: http://bit.ly/1Q8ajO5

30/10/2015

This was last year's National Demo for Free Education, make sure you make the next one which is this Wednesday!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1ZJDhe6ZcA

Buy your tickets here http://www.guildofstudents.com/ents/event/1119/

Over 200 Brighton students today took part in the national demonstration for free education in London. They joined up to ten thousand students, staff and wor...

27/10/2015

*****UOB STUDENTS GET YOUR TICKETS FOR THE NATIONAL DEMO HERE***** http://www.guildofstudents.com/ents/event/1119/

14/10/2015

http://www.thechamberlainfiles.com/library-of-birmingham-opening-to-be-extended-by-26-hours-a-week/

Great work everyone involved in the Library Occupations and the Friends of the Library campaign. The ideology of Austerity is toxic bu****it that is destroying our public resources but if we fight for them we can save them.

A move to open the Library of Birmingham for an extra 26 hours a week will be approved next week. The city council cabinet is to sign off plans to relocate the Brasshouse Language School to the fir…

13/10/2015

"Join the army, travel to distant lands, meet exciting new people...and kill them"

Today a small group of Defend Education activists (and couple of random Quakers :P ) were able to temporarily shut down an event the Army were holding outside the Guild of Students.

The Army has no place on our campus.
- We oppose the high levels of r**e and sexual assault that goes on in the army and how little the institution does about it.
- We oppose the neo-imperial wars conducted by the army.
- We oppose the murder of people in the global south

12/10/2015

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/police-called-students-stage-sit-10238884

Good coverage in this Birmingham Mail article about Saturday's sit in at the Library of Birmingham. A couple of clarifications: Defend Education were only one of the groups involved (although we were, arguably, the most enthusiastic tweeters). Secondly the police were at the sit-in for all of two minutes.

Still pretty cool to say you were part of an occupation of the biggest public library in Europe

10/10/2015

This evening, the 10th October, following a rally outside the Library of Birmingham a group of 25-30 students, activists, and service users took part in a sit in occupation inside the library. In protest against the shortening of the hours, redundancies, withdrawal of services, and continued involvement of private corporations such as Google, the group took part in music, poetry readings, and other activities. In what was described as a “festival of protest” the group stayed into the evening demanding the reversal of cuts and removal of private interest, demanding that the Library of Birmingham should become a truly people's library.

10/10/2015

Occupation of the Library of Birmingham

09/10/2015

In three weeks is the national demo, where we are fighting against barriers, borders and business in education and beyond! We want our education to be free and fair! We want the maintenance grants restored and improved!

Look out for information coming soon about travel to the demo :)

Join the national demo here: http://www.facebook.com/events/1449378505377525/ Free education and living grants for all - No barriers - No borders - No busine...