By Joseph Loughnane (FEE Galway) Education should be about teaching people how to think, not what to think. Third level education today however has become no more than state subsidised training. Universities are now just a huge assembly line churning out regimented workers for the benefit of corporations, banks and big business. Terms such as…
By Alan Spencer (FEE Galway) On November 2nd, 2011 the Fine Gael / Labour government paid out over 700 million euro to the unsecured bondholders of Anglo Irish Bank – a bank that no longer effectively exists or functions as such, a bank that so far has swallowed up billions of euro of Irish taxpayers money…
By James Falconer (FEE Galway) How would you feel if you were bombarded with Sky News upon entering the university library? Considering there are a few TV screens around the library giving information about catalogue training etc. Would anyone object to this public space becoming private? I frequent the Kingfisher gym and there’s not one,…
Springtime, the New Student Rebellions (Edited by Clare Solomon and Tania Palmieri. Verso.) The autumn and winter of 2010 saw the sudden and dramatic re-emergence of radical student movements, with mass student uprisings taking place across Europe and the United States in opposition to both the austerity measures being levelled against ordinary people as a…
“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…
