Up to 40 third-level students staged a protest outside the Department of Finance in Dublin today at the planned reintroduction of college fees and the education cutbacks announced in the Budget. Some 15 of the protesters from the Free Education for Everyone (FEE) group entered the building in Merrion Street and held a sit-in on…
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Massachusetts, U.S.A. : UMass students protest possible fee increase
A coalition of undergraduate and graduate students continued a series of protests yesterday speaking out against a proposed $1,500 fee increase for students at the University of Massachusetts next semester. The protests are part of an effort to convince the University’s Board of Trustees to hold off on voting on the fee increase until funds…
NYC, USA: NYU 18 Suspended, Protest Sparks Campus Debate
On Friday, Feb. 20, the student occupation of New York University’s Kimmel Center for Student Life ended, and the repercussions began. The university suspended the last 18 students who remained in Kimmel Friday morning, and non-N.Y.U. participants were told that their information would be given to the NYPD for trespassing. Judicial hearings begin on Monday…
The College View (DCU): Free the fees
He might have watched them on the telly. Or listened to their chants broadcast on the radio. He might have even waited until the following day and read all about it in the national press. Or perhaps, Minister for Education Batt O’Keeffe locked himself away in his office and chose to ignore the cries of…
Copenhagen, Denmark: Students protest over funding issue
Up to 200 students of the faculty of humanities at the University of Copenhagen gathered in front of the entrances to the university’s Saxo Institute and Central Administration to protest the financial aid cuts. The protest follows similar moves from students at the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Sociology and a demonstration by students…
Helsinki, Finland: Overnight Student Sit-in Ends at Helsinki University
A student sit-in at the administration building of the Helsinki University ended peacefully this morning. The protestors held discussions with Helsinki University Chancellor Thomas Wilhelmsson about proposed regulatory reform, details of university legislation and the status of students. About 100 students occupied the university’s administration building from Thursday afternoon. About two dozen protesters remained…
Maynooth FEE banner drop report
Last week, on the 11th of February F.E.E activists in N.U.I Maynooth dropped a reasonably sized banner off the bridge connecting the North and South campuses reading: NO TO FEES! WE WONT PAY
New York, U.S.A. – New York University (NYU) Occupied
Following what has been a wave of student activism over the past couple of months, including student occupations in Greece ,Great Britain , and the United States and protests across Europe, students from the Take Back NYU coalition have begun to occupy the Kimmel Center for University Life at New York University. The coalition, which includes a diverse number of groups ranging from Amnesty…
Report from UL protest February 2009
A protest was organised on February 16th in UL to greet senior Fianna Fail Minister Willie O’Dea who thought he could simply waltz onto our campus after his government recently announced major cutbacks in education and will soon try to impose college fees. Even though the Minister cancelled a few hours before the event an anti-fees rally…
Irish Independent: Students accused of pulling stunts with sit-in protest
Students were yesterday accused of “pulling stunts” by the youth wing of the Green Party after a five-hour sit-in at the Department of Environment. The Union of Students in ireland (USI) turned their focus on Green Party leader and Environment Minister John Gormley in the latest demonstrations opposing the re-introduction of fees. http://www.independent.ie/national-news/students-accused-of-pulling-stunts–with-sitin-protest-1642025.html
