Motions for Summer Conference – send your amendments in now!
June 1, 2016 By NCAFC Secretariat Leave a Comment
Across the country, local groups and affiliates have been writing motions to be debated at NCAFC Summer Conference! The documents below contain all the motions that have been received: NCAFC Summer Conference 2016 Motions Submitted (.docx) NCAFC Summer Conference 2016 Motions Submitted (.pdf) Individual members of NCAFC can submit amendments to any of these motions. […]
Statement: the resignations of Callum Townsend and David McNerlin
May 31, 2016 By Admin Leave a Comment
Recent joiners of NCAFC and National Committee members Callum Townsend and David McNerlin resigned from NCAFC and the National Committee on Sunday. There was an ongoing investigation into complaints made against Townsend, and more recently and separately there were issues related to the conduct of both McNerlin and Townsend in their capacities as representatives of […]
Statement on Keep The Caterers’ Victories
May 24, 2016 By Admin Leave a Comment
This is a statement from the Keep The Caterers campaign at the University of Manchester, you can find them on facebook here. In March, the University of Manchester announced plans to restructure its subsidiary company, UMC, making 46 redundancies in catering while moving the remaining staff on to ‘term-time only’ contracts. This latter move would […]
SUMMER CONFERENCE AGENDA ANNOUNCED!
May 20, 2016 By Admin Leave a Comment
The agenda for our 2016 summer conference has been announced! Check it out below, and don’t forget to register your free place here for what is set to be a fantastic weekend! FRIDAY 18:00-19:30: Scottish Plenary: Education in Scotland, is it really free? 19:30: Social SATURDAY 10:00-10:45: Registration 10:45-11:45: Plenary: The Higher Education Reforms explained […]
I don’t want a free Maccies burger, I want a fighting, political NUS: A response to our Vice President
May 17, 2016 By Admin Leave a Comment
This piece is by Hannah McCarthy, Campaigns Officer at Manchester Student Union, Free Education MCR activist and NCAFC member in response to NUS Vice President Union Development Richard Brooks’s article in the Telegraph. In what reads as a politically atrocious article from our NUS Vice President of Union Development, let’s first prove his analysis as […]
Press Release: NCAFC’s response to the HE White Paper
May 17, 2016 By Admin Leave a Comment
Contact: 07895405312, 07905136094 *** Government confirmed that through the TEF measures introduced in the HE White Paper, University fees could be increased from 2017/18 ***Other plans include making it easier for private providers to offer degrees and become universities *** Students to pursue strategy to ‘wreck’ government metrics if they don’t abandon plans in […]
Five initial responses to the HE White Paper
May 16, 2016 By Admin Leave a Comment
The government’s Higher Education White Paper that was released on Monday 16th May 2016 ‘Success as a Knowledge Economy: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice’ is a clear ideological attack on students, workers and universities as truly public institutions. Here are our initial responses, we will have more for you over the next few […]
Model motion: Sabotage the NSS!
May 16, 2016 By Admin Leave a Comment
The government’s Higher Education White Paper, Success As A Knowledge Economy, proposes reforms which, if implemented, will pave the way for the end of public higher education as we know it. Higher, variable fees will be introduced; private providers will be given help into the market as public universities are allowed to collapse; and “teaching […]
What Is a Union For?
May 12, 2016 By Admin Leave a Comment
This article by Luke Dukinfield was originally published on Novara Media here. They argue against right-wing disaffiliation narratives and for a political, fighting NUS that stands up for students’ material interests. In workplaces, unions have historically assumed the form of trade unions, and although there isn’t a simple continuity between the subjectivity of worker and […]
Support education workers on strike for #FairPayInHE
May 11, 2016 By Admin Leave a Comment
This week, the UCU trade union (representing academic and related workers, including many students who teach as postgrads) announced the opening of industrial action in their campaign for fairer pay in higher education. They will be on strike in universities 25-26 May, and at the same time beginning to work to contract, which means they […]
BSAFC Says YES to NUS
May 10, 2016 By Admin Leave a Comment
An article by Bath Students Against Fees and Cuts on why they are urging Bath SU to remain in the NUS. We share it here to provide other students across the country with arguments to use when facing right-wing disaffiliation campaigns. In the wake of Lincoln SU’s disaffiliation from the NUS, and a small uprising […]
Model motion: support arrested student protesters!
April 29, 2016 By Admin Leave a Comment
The student movement needs to do more to defend and support activists victimised by the police, defending the right to protest and take direct action is vital to taking on the government and university managements in the fight for free education and other progressive battles. Here is a model motion to get your SU to […]
There is a bigger threat to NUS than disaffiliation campaigns
April 25, 2016 By Admin Leave a Comment
The last few days has seen multiple stories in press outlets about the potential of students running disaffiliation campaigns from the NUS, following the election of Malia Bouattia. These disaffiliation campaigns and the media’s narrative surrounding them should be battled against. Although flawed, the NUS is the largest and most powerful political body representing students […]
Statement of Solidarity with Malia Bouattia
April 23, 2016 By Admin Leave a Comment
Congratulations to Malia Bouattia, who got elected this week to replace Megan Dunn and become the first BAME woman and Muslim President in NUS’s history. Bouattia ran on a leftwing platform, emphasising liberation, support for free education, opposition to the PREVENT agenda, and commitment to democracy and accountability. Bouattia’s victory has been met with a […]
Final Day Bulletin: NUS Conference
April 21, 2016 By Admin Leave a Comment
The Bulletin: Proudly produced by the National Campaign Against Fees & Cuts Weather Outlook: Fuck knows, we’ve not been outside for three days After conference: what next in the fight for education? This conference has voted for bold action to fight the government’s attacks on public education, and to stand for a radical, positive alternative. And […]
Open letter: Over 200 support the call to sabotage the NSS to defend education!
April 15, 2016 By Admin Leave a Comment
We, the undersigned, support the call for a sabotage of the 2017 National Student Survey (NSS) and the subsequent Destination of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) survey, as part of a strategy to stop the higher education reforms. We will be voting for amendment 201b at NUS National Conference 2016 and we encourage other […]
NCAFC Candidates for NUS Block of 15 Announced!
April 14, 2016 By Admin Leave a Comment
Every year NUS Conference elects fifteen students to the National Executive Committee in what is known as the “Block of 15” elections. Their role of hold the elected officers to account, ensure that policy at conference is followed, and act as the democratic decision making body in the period between conferences. NCAFC is running three […]
Statement in solidarity with the occupation of Charles Stewart House
April 10, 2016 By Admin Leave a Comment
We the undersigned stand in absolute solidarity with People and Planet Edinburgh and the students of Edinburgh University, who for the second year running have occupied their finance building; Charles Stewart House, as part of their divestment campaign, which aims to get the university to withdraw all investments from companies which derive more than 5% […]
Activists occupy GLL gym as start of wider direct action to save Lambeth libraries
April 8, 2016 By Admin Leave a Comment
By Omar Raii, NCAFC activist Campaigners from the student organisation National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts and Save Lambeth Libraries joined forces today to occupy the GLL gym/leisure centre on Marshall Street near Oxford Circus. We took over the lobby of the building for half an hour, shouted chants including “GLL, hear us say, Lambeth […]
Callout: #BursaryOrBust – Join the Walkout and Die In!
April 4, 2016 By Admin Leave a Comment
As part of their ongoing fight against the scrapping of NHS bursaries, NHS funded students all over the UK will walk out of their placements for two hours on Wednesday 6th April at 10am. This follows a successful walkout in February as part of a nationwide week of action and will be done in coordination […]