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"About three dozen high school and university students have turned to starving themselves to raise the stakes on the government of President Sebastián Piñera. In the more than two months since education protests began in this country, students have organized rallies drawing up to 100,000 people, taken control of dozens of schools around the country, and forced hundreds more to stop holding classes."
"The Babson-Equal Exchange Cooperative Curriculum for Graduate Schools is designed for students in professional graduate schools. The curriculum is presented in three modes: As a semester-long course, typically consisting of 14 class sessions; as a half-semester course, lasting 7 class sessions; and as a two-part workshop, the parts of which may be attended individually or together in sequence."
Chile has been engulfed by student protests – and their young leader has huge public support in her fight against the elite
"Chilean students marched in downtown Santiago Thursday, clashing with police and blocking traffic for much of the day, after negotiations with the government over education reforms broke down."
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Chilean police used water cannons and tear gas to break up the student march demanding free public education. A huge deployment of riot police surrounded students in the Plaza Italia, Santiago's traditional gathering place, where student leader Camila Vallejo tried to lead the march while holding a sign saying “United and Stronger,” only to be pummelled by water cannons and forced to retreat by tear gas.
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Protesters hurled rocks at police and set blockades ablaze in the streets as officers on horseback chased students onto nearby campuses.
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"Scenes that have not been seen in New Zealand universities in a decade – these could well be the opening moves in a titanic shift in the power relations inside New Zealand universities. Yet whether the shift is in favour of students, lecturers and the community or in favour of the corporates and the neoliberals is still to be decided."
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Rising fees, attacks on lecturers’ work rights, the passage of the VSM Bill [voluntary student membership – similar to the VSU bill introduced by the Howard government in Australia] in two weeks time, the closure of popular academic departments and the increasingly authoritarian style of university management make the situation on our campuses potentially inflammatory.
"On 9 November, student groups will mobilise in protest once more against the fundamentalism of coalition policy"
"On Tuesday 9th August, several roadblocks were set up in different parts of the city in the early morning (from 6.30 am on), preceding what would be the departure point for the march from in front of the University of Santiago at 10.30 am."
A libertarian viewpoint from anarchist communists involved in the student mobiliztion of the proposals and the movement for education in Chile.
Riot police have battled students on the streets of Chile's capital, firing water cannon and tear gas at protesters, reports Sky News.
The violence broke out in Santiago amid calls for changes to the country's under-funded education system.
Over 500 arrested during running street battles, as student protesters defy official protest ban to demonstrate for equal access to education.
If the Arab Spring has lost its bloom halfway across the world, people here are living what some have come to call a Chilean Winter. Segments of society that had been seen as politically apathetic only a few years ago, particularly the youth, have taken an unusually confrontational stance toward the government and business elite,
The evangelical neoliberalism which erupted in the US House of Representatives in 2008 and spread like the mange to the UK House of Commons is coming soon to an English university near you.
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Evangelical neoliberalism is a commitment to privatisation so devoutly ideological that it will court capitalistic suicide for the sake of free market purity.
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Its scripture reads something like this: be fruitful and multiply the market until it covers the world; above all protect its sanctity from the corruption of the profane state – at any and all cost, including the utter collapse of capitalism itself. This isn’t about economics so much as faith. It’s a bastard child of laissez-faire dogma and puritanical Bible-bashing, with all the requisite self-flagellation painfully savoured by its own acolytes, and in that sense it is a singular denomination within the broader neoliberal church. If it’s ringing any fascist bells, you’re in the right pew.
The Obama administration is spearheading an unprecedented assault on public education in the US. The White House and Education Secretary Arne Duncan are promoting a nationwide wave of school closures, teacher and staff layoffs, attacks on teachers’ wages and conditions, and an expansion of privately run charter schools—all in the guise of education “reform.”
On Thursday, I was proud to take part in a student walkout at the University of Maryland in defense of public education. It was just one link in a National Day of Action that saw protests in more than 32 states across the country.
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At the University of Maryland, as tuition has been hiked and classes cut, football coach Ralph Friedgen makes a base salary of 1.75 million bucks, which would be outrageous even if the team weren’t two-steps past terrible. Friedgen also gets perks like a $50,000 bonus if none of his players are arrested during the course of the season.
SAN FRANCISCO - Hundreds of thousands of students, parents, faculty, campus workers and community supporters demonstrated in California and around the country March 4 in a massive protest to save public education.
The coverage of the events of March 4th were intended to be representative of the students that marched and protested throughout the day. AggieTV participated alongside students at this rally with our cameras, to help tell our story --- the student's story.
Reports from coast to coast are still coming in, but it's clear that the March 4 Day of Action saw a major turnout of students opposing budget cuts and tuition hikes who just may represent a rising new movement mobilizing on behalf of its own threatened interests.
Something is shifting in the education debate. There is a sense forming that since our quietly held perspectives and knowledge are not sought or respected, only our creative and bold actions will make a difference. The March 4 protests will serve to deliver this message: you cannot demand that we teach all students to high levels, then slash support for our schools.
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School funding across the nation varies according to the wealth of local communities and their ability to raise tax revenues to support schools. This is true even in states like California where the bulk of funding comes from the state. Wealthy communities find ways to get money to their schools. Poor communities do not. Federal funding was historically used to compensate for this gap, to help the impoverished districts buy some of the supports the wealthier districts could afford. But now the Obama administration is shifting more and more of these dollars into competitive grants that reward "innovation."
Although the idea that we will have a contest and let the best ideas win and be rewarded sounds great, there are some problems here, which have recently surfaced.
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As Dean Millot pointed out recently, there are real questions of fairness and objectiviy here, especially when the judges were, until recently, employed by some of the entities applying for the grants! Millot wrote about this and found his blog post censored, and himself fired for having the nerve to raise this question.
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جري الحوار في ساعات الصباح الباكر أمس السبت في حديقة منزله في طريق مصر ـ إسكندرية الصحراوي وكان قد تناول إفطاره واطلع علي جميع مواقع الصحف العالمية التي تناولت أخبار استقباله.
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