Save our Scottish Universities is a new campaign group created to fight impending crisis, with 3 demands:
1. Fund universities in full for tuition of Scottish and UK students
2. End the Marketisation of Universities
3. Minimise cross-funding that exploits international students
Scottish universities are in crisis. With up to £100million of cuts announced by the Scottish Government (source: BBC News), and inflationary pressures growing, time is running out.
📉Universities & colleges are systematically underfunded and it's students & staff that pay the price.
📈Principals' salaries are inflated beyond reason, a symptom of an overly marketised system.
👉Read more in our Broke Students, Broken System report: https://t.co/CmxKEB1CkU
Today we commemorate the life of Mark Ashton, who, unbeknownst to some, was once General Secretary of the Young Communist League of Britain 🏳️🌈🚩
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🙌We're grateful to @GlasgowPam for raising the devastating budget cuts colleges & universities are faced with.
Students & staff deserve better than being underfunded & undervalued.
Add your voice and tell the Scottish Government to #StoptheCuts
https://t.co/yxAyd5LQuu
UK HE is in turmoil. While all involved contend with the complexity, we should not lose sight of the colleagues &students most directly affected.
Our branch voted to keep fighting for a better HE in any way we can, and to look out for & look after staff&students here & anywhere.
Obviously something is wrong with scottish universities. The answer isn't the reintroduction of fees.
The Scottish Government must #StopTheCuts and fund Scottish universities properly.
International students are more likely than Scots to be offered places to study in most subject areas at the nation’s top universities. In many courses, we found the offer rate for overseas students was double the rate for Scots at Edinburgh University. https://t.co/wBvBODiiyO
🪧We're rallying in a couple of weeks!
📢Join us outside the Scottish Parliament to tell them to #StoptheCuts to our education, and protect Scotland's future.
🗓️February 21, 1pm.
👉 RSVP: https://t.co/zHMQ3ME6Lw
📺Last night NUS President @elliebgomersall was on ITV talking about our new report: Broke Students, Broken System.
The current system puts profit over people. The Scottish Government must read this report and act - we need change now.
Read the report: https://t.co/1Fs87AGf4y
Wrote about the horrendous plans to take over the only cinema in St Andrews and how it's part of a wider trend of private investment ridding our towns of cultural spaces - for @Scottishleftrev
https://t.co/yx9fKtTd36
Heba Zagout was one of the most talented artists in Gaza Strip.
Here is her work ⤵️
I just found out she was killed, along with children. May her memory be a blessing
🇵🇸 CALL TO ACTION - MARCH FOR PALESTINE - END THE VIOLENCE - END APARTHEID 🇵🇸
Saturday 14th October 2pm
Join the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign events in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen
📍Glasgow, Buchanan Steps
#FreeGaza#FreePalestine#PalestineUnderAttack