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FEE calls for student block on ICTU march!

February 17, 2009

Free Education for Everyone (FEE), a student group fighting the reintroduction of fees and cutbacks in third level education, is calling on all secondary and third level students to join the ICTU National Demonstration this saturday to show solidarity with all workers facing pension levys, job losses and pay cuts. The Irish Congress of Trade [...]

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UCD FEE launches referendum

February 16, 2009

With the government’s decision to introduce third level fees expected within two months, the student campaign against fees, Free Education for Everyone (FEE) is stepping up its campaign across the country. A crucial step is fighting to build genuine campaigning students’ unions capable of leading a mass movement to defeat the government’s threat. In UCD, [...]

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FEE occupations on National Day of Action

December 4, 2008

Over 20 students from UCD occupied the office of Paul Gogarty Green Party TD for Dublin Mid-West and Spokesperson on Education in Lucan Village. This is in protest at the increase in college registration fees to €1500 per year and the possible full re-introduction of fees. Related Posts:Support The Student Occupation in Vienna.Student Protest Ends [...]

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Trinity News: A significant minority are seizing the initiative

November 26, 2008

After the march on the Dail of October 22, 2008, this newspaper said that “each student’s time will have been wasted if the one voice that was heard on the day of the march isn’t turned into 10,000 voices, all clearly making their disparate, individual thoughts felt. Related Posts:NUIM Opposition To Bertie Ahern On CampusA [...]

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150 TCD students protest against Batt O’Keeffe, SU President welcomes him!

November 24, 2008

In the first Free Education for Everyone protest in Trinity, around 150 students turned up to send a clear message of opposition to fees to Batt O’Keeffe, the Minister for Education. However, in the second SU leader betrayal of the week, the Students’ Union President, Cathal Reilly welcomed O’Keeffe to the college with a handshake [...]

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Future of free fees

November 18, 2008

Towards the end of 2002, Noel Dempsey, then Minister for Education in the Fianna Fail led government, raised the prospect of the re-introduction of full fees. In propaganda that has been imitated by current Minister for Education, Batt O’Keeffe, he claimed that these would only be “for the rich.” Over the next six months, he [...]

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UCD Public Meeting on the Commercialisation of Education

November 5, 2008

“One World – One Struggle, Education is NOT for Sale!” To mark the International Day of Action Against the Commercialisation of Education , Free Education for Everyone (FEE) will be hosting a public meeting and discussion on Thursday, 6th November at 5pm in UCD. *Gregor Kerr (INTO) will be speaking on the Budget’s Education cuts [...]

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RTE News: Brian Lenihan UCD Protest

November 2, 2008

Embedded from RTE.IE Real Player required Related Posts:NUIM Opposition To Bertie Ahern On CampusA Report From The Picket Lines: NUI MaynoothA letter from trade unionists on campus regarding November24thNUI Maynooth News: Bertie Ahern Meeting/ November 24th StrikeSupport The Student Occupation in Vienna.

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Beyond Protest To Resistance – An Overview of the Campaign for Free Education

November 1, 2008

Originally written in the Summer of 2003. For other accounts of the last  time the government tried to introduce fees in 2002- 2003, see here and here It’s been something of a heady year in UCD, sometimes it feels like everything has happened so fast that a year has passed in a month. Then at [...]

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RTE Primetime: University Funding

October 31, 2008

Embedded from RTE.IE Real Player required Related Posts:NUIM Opposition To Bertie Ahern On CampusA Report From The Picket Lines: NUI MaynoothA letter from trade unionists on campus regarding November24thNUI Maynooth News: Bertie Ahern Meeting/ November 24th StrikeSupport The Student Occupation in Vienna.

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