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NUS National Shutdown.
The week after the week before.
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So with a week to reflect, just how did the NUS national shutdown go down? Was there any press coverage in the end? Did it shake the corridors of power like we wanted, or did it go unnoticed as we expected?
The most comprehensive set of reports, with just about all the links that are available right now.
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The Times Higher Education Supplement, the flagship HE newspaper managed only this picture and twenty-one words to report the National Shutdown, over a week after it happened (9th March 2001). The THES found out about it after a Nottingham Trent SU Officer got off her arse and told the papers- i.e. actually took this seriously and did her job. This was the job of NUS, but shows what individuals can achieve, and what NUS could have achieved it if was bothered. The rule is phone calls, faxes and emails to papers equals news coverage, the more the better. After the shutdown, only one other national paper, The Independent, even mentioned it had happened.
Those glorious 21 words in full;
Grin Reaper: Tony Blair featured in a protest at Nottingham Trent University last week, part of a nationwide day of action.
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Universities UK
'Rule-In' Top-Up Fees
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Can you trust your MP?
Not in Nottingham
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Why are we bothering?
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After Tony Blair lied on BBCs Question Time about voting to ban hunting, it seems everyone must have reckoned they could get away with it. A Nottingham MP tells an 'untruth' about a voting record closer to home.
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So do you reckon we're Paranoid? Ultra-Left? Insane? Nutbars? Or reasonably concerned? Read why anyone would publish all this crap, and what will happen if you don't start paying attention.
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NUS President fails to motivate his old University into any sort of protest.
'Poor Relations' show them how its done.
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Despite the rhetoric of a 'National' Shutdown, NUS President Owain James' couldn't motivate his old institution Warwick University didn't bother with any sort of protest on shutdown day as 'poor relations' Coventry University were protesting 'Because they need to!'
Warwick Report
Coventrys protest got students the small but significant victory of extended fee payment deadline, which although not much, is better than the expulsion non-payers faced.
Coventry Report
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University of Corporations.
Stolen From: SchNews
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You should know by now we are seeing the privatisation of our education services, but Cambridge University has gone one further by appointing a GKN Professor of Manufacturing Engineering. GKN is a dodgy arms exporter and clearly it is now much more important for the University to accept money from any company then conduct impartial research for the benefit of everyone. This comes after appointments of a Shell Chair in Chemical Engineering and a Thatcher Professor of Enterprise! How long will it be before there is a McDonalds Professor of Nutrition? Students are campaigning to stop this corporate take-over of British Universities.
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