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cyu
5th March 2010, 01:42
Excerpts from http://fightcutsatuow.blogspot.com/2010/03/students-currently-in-occupation.html

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Over 200 staff and students at the University of Westminster have protested, stormed the board of governors meeting and are currently in occupation, vice-chancellors office, in regard to recently proposed tutoring and administrative job cuts.

Recently, over 150 staff and students placed a unanimous vote of no confidence in the vice-chancellor and his management

The vice-chancellor has openly declared that job cuts are the initiative of the governors, not his. Well, demonstrators asked him for themselves, after storming past security and into the governor’s meeting. They were greeted by a board of governors who were 'quaking in their boots'

The Ungovernable Farce
5th March 2010, 17:08
Excerpts from http://fightcutsatuow.blogspot.com/2010/03/students-currently-in-occupation.html

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Over 200 staff and students at the University of Westminster have protested, stormed the board of governors meeting and are currently in occupation, vice-chancellors office, in regard to recently proposed tutoring and administrative job cuts.

Recently, over 150 staff and students placed a unanimous vote of no confidence in the vice-chancellor and his management

The vice-chancellor has openly declared that job cuts are the initiative of the governors, not his. Well, demonstrators asked him for themselves, after storming past security and into the governor’s meeting. They were greeted by a board of governors who were 'quaking in their boots'
It's part of a movement across the country. Yesterday's events at Sussex were pretty dramatic (http://defendsussex.wordpress.com/). Leeds has seen a pretty militant campaign (http://leedsuniversityagainstcuts.wordpress.com/), but it's not on the scale of Westminster or Sussex yet. I think Westminster and Sussex won't be the last places to occupy over this issue.