Which of you lazy student types are going on strike then?

Which of you lazy student types are going on strike then?

Universities are bracing themselves for a week of chaos on campus as students protesting against top-up fees prepared to combine in a pincer movement with lecturers striking over pay.

More than 20 universities could be shut down when undergraduates stand on picket lines with lecturers belonging to the Association of University Teachers, claimed the National Union of Students.

The unions will target Welsh universities on Monday, English ones on Tuesday and those in Scotland and Northern Ireland on Thursday and Friday respectively, with a UK-wide "day of action" taking place on Wednesday.

They said there was a "clear link" between student fees and staff pay "modernisation".

Both were leading to the "marketisation" of higher education, the unions warned.

NUS president Mandy Telford predicted that "at least" 20 universities including Warwick and Goldsmith's College, part of the University of London, would be unable to function that day.

Others, including Cardiff and Aberdeen, could also be forced to close during the disruption, she claimed.

The Government's controversial Higher Education Bill, which will give universities the power to charge fees of up to £3,000 from 2006, is currently going through Parliament.

It just cleared its first Commons hurdle at the end of January, when Tony Blair's majority was slashed to just five votes in the biggest rebellion against a piece of Government legislation since Labour came to power in 1997.

Ms Telford said: "What we want to do with this week of action is to keep this issue at the top of the agenda and take it out to a wider audience, and get members of the public more aware of the issues. And, most importantly, we are keeping the pressure up on MPs."

Is northumbria uni included in this?

Read it in the Sunday Sun. I dunno.

http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/...fm?objectid=13977033&method=full&siteid=50081

a student going on strike half of them are on strike most of the time anyway

They'll strike over their "working" week next...!

Tax scrounging b*stards all of em

as far as I know.... only one of my lecturers is striking..... but I aint going to lectures on tues or weds.... cant be arsed specially if theres snow about.

hell yeah, gonna be messy.

So its only you posho's at Newcastle that are involved and not us plebian poly peasants?

plebian poly peasants eh?

:spangled:

Got tuesday off anyway... in at nine on wednesday so I think I will be 'striking'... for the good of us students of course!

no... i'm at newcastle

however, our big course director (engineering) said that since most lecturers are striking, there would be no point in attending....i'll find out tomorrow.

Any excuse

Of course...

@ blur - Northumbria Uni used to Newcastle Polytechnic... all you rah's love telling us that!

LOL

I'm not a rah btw, but i'm @ castle leazes......which is infested with them :evil:

Its ok, I know i'm inferior... afterall my daddy doesn't own a yacht...

I know mate... was only jesting! Snack off here goes to your uni and she is a donny lass... they have to let a few undesirables in to make up the quota's!

i'm in EPH

Is hendersons that bad?

I know a lad that's got ensuite.... and he pays like an extra £1000 a year....... what a wanker.

Agreed

Almost all of us end up in the same boat anyway... nearly 20 grands worth of debt for me when I graduate... so all that tax dodging, government sponging malarky can be left at the door!

to be fair, students aren't tax scrounging bastards. any tax which they dont pay while at university they'll more than make up for should they reach the higher earning thresh hold of £30k and have to pay 30% income tax as opposed to 22% like everyoe else..