In the run up to the National Demonstration for Free Education,
join our public meeting about the current neoliberal education system and how we can transform it to create free, democratic, representative and inclusive educational institutions!
Tuesday 17th November, at 7PM in the KLT, SOAS
Join us for discussion about the current neoliberal education system, and about how we can transform it to create free, democratic, representative, inclusive and supportive educational institutions.
The current education system is not democratic, representative or inclusive. While there is a £1 billion surplus in the higher education sector and management salaries are increasing, staff’s pay in universities and colleges have been cut by 13% in real terms since 2008 and pensions are now under attack, teachers’ labour is increasingly being casualised, services are increasingly being outsourced, half of universities and two thirds of further education colleges in the UK use zero hours contracts and 12,500 workers in universities are paid less than the Living Wage. There are only 85 black professors out of 20,000 in the UK, there is a significant gender pay gap, a significant black students’ attainment gap, teachers and curricula are not representative of liberation groups and teaching and learning is not inclusive and supportive of all students.
Join our public meeting on Monday 17th November at 7pm in the KLT, in the run up to the National Demonstration for Free Education, to discuss the impact of neoliberalism on education and how we can transcend the current education system, abolishing financial and social barriers and creating an education system that is not just free in terms of not having fees (for international students as well as home students), but that is also democratic, representative, inclusive and supportive of all students and staff.
Speakers:
David Graeber - lecturer in anthropology at LSE and activist
Meera Sabaratnam - lecturer in International Relations at SOAS and UCU representative
Arianna Tassinari - former SOAS Students' Union Co-President and activist
Mattew Brett - (via video from Montreal) former SOAS student, involved with the Free Education movement in Quebec
Short speeches will be followed by discussion in break out groups about how to take forward the campaign. Groups will feedback to everyone, and then we'll collectively come up with action points!
ALL INVITED!
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/467299456741381/
