Students sit-in, march against 4% rise in grants

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stop baking us for * 9ranted Thousands march against fores further below the rate of inflation.

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Sheffield Poly. were occupied vaded.

York University administration block cupied on the Monday and finished four days later.

thou he silvas is ne take on read ore severe written leaflets. we've gone on marches and nothing's been done, she said. OCCUPATION fever is hitting the campuses as Margaret Thatcher's education cuts hit home.

Student grants will be frozen at the four per cent that the public sector employees face if Maggie has her way. This will mean that for the third successive year student income will fall As part of a week of action called by the National Union of Students and the British Youth Council some 75,000 students walked out of their universities ment. We're disrupting things to an extent which will and 40,000 joined a lobby of parliament on Monday 2 Leeds and Sussex Universities Senate meetings at Hull were in was oc for the occupation told Socialist Challenge why she 'We'd like to think of school leavers in the future place who'd take an SDP line on education cuts - pro. longing them but having no alternative. drivers did but that's no reason for doing nothing at all.

embarrass the so that they i think twice about cutting.

appalling consequences of government policies in higher education, not only on the campuses but also among the general public that any OPS worker here should be paid the toil We've also raised demands about YOPS they haven't organised the week of action at all. People say Dave Aaronovitch has got a lot fatter since he took office going to all the lunches he's invited to We've had to take the initiative ourselves.

- universities are becoming more and more of an elite as it becomes harder and harder to get a I think there's few people in York Labour Club It's true that we can't stop trains like the ASLEF 'We're putting pressure indirectly on the governgovernment and the administration 'But we're also raising consciousness about the Leeds Pie Box FRa LAP. 39 Cookridge Si, Leeds Socialist Challenge National Saturday 3 April national mobilising con 11 March 1982 page 15

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