Schools

What's wrong with schools and how to change them

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Date: 
19 November, 2009 - 19:30 - 21:15
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The Lucas Arms, 245a Grays Inn Road, Kings Cross (5 minutes from the Tube or rail)

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A London AWL forum

From privatised school-building to its obsession with testing, from academies and trust schools to attacking education workers’ pay and conditions, New Labour has reshaped our school system in line with the needs of business. Now the Tories want to go even further, eradicating more and more elements of democratic control and child-centred learning.

Come and discuss the changes taking place in our school system, how we can oppose them - and how we can develop our own alternative vision of what education should be like.

Speakers:
Jean Lane, teaching assistant and Tower Hamlets Unison assistant secretary
Tali Janner-Klausner, London School Students’ Union
Joe Flynn, secondary teacher and Croydon NUT activist

School students' struggles in France

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Date: 
13 July, 2009 - 20:30 - 22:30
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School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H

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School students’ struggles in France - a student activist from France’s New Anticapitalist Party speaks in London

A joint Education Not for Sale - London School Students’ Union meeting

The past year has seen huge waves of student resistance to cuts and privatisation. As the economic crisis deepens, public services are facing the brunt of the crisis through cuts and redundancies. Education too is being used for cost cutting, with school and university students facing higher tuition fees, school closures and crippling budget cuts. Throughout Europe, governments have been attacking education, and throughout Europe these attacks have been met by mass, grassroots opposition and resistance from school and university students.

From school walkouts and demonstrations to university occupations, students have defended education, and France has been one of the most inspiring and successful examples of this. These student movements have had many impressive achievements and can provide many important lessons to us in Britain, facing the same threats to our education system.

London School Students’ Union and Education Not for Sale, a student group campaigning for free education, are holding a joint public meeting about this movement. Ameline Shah, a student activist in France’s New Anticapitalist Party, will speak on the youth movements in France and the rest of Europe and her involvement in the French school students’ union.

For more information ring Tali on 07800 921 828 or email londonssu@gmail.com
Facebook event here.

Hands off Lewisham Bridge School!

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Date: 
9 May, 2009 - 14:00 - 16:00
Location: 

Assemble Cornmill Gardens, Elmira Street, Lewisham, S E London

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March to a rally at the clock tower, Lewisham High Street.
Lewisham Council want to knock down Lewisham Bridge Primary School to build a new "all age" school to be put in private hands
This plan doesn't have the backing of local parents or staff, will reduce primary school places just where they are needed.
March to save the school!

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