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sister_luckAt the moment there are protests at several universities and at some schools. There are strikes, sit-ins and blocked lecture halls.
In 1997/98, when I was still at uni, we were on strike, too. We protested against the plans to introduce fees, most of us not because we were categorically against paying for a university education (in an ideal world....), but because we thought the proposed system would mean that the fees wouldn't actually be used to improve teaching and research - or pay for much-needed repairs of shoddy 80s buildings. Another bone of contention was the introduction of 'Bachelor' and 'Master' degree courses all under the guise of making studying in European countries more similar, the so-called Bologna process. We weren't against that per se, but, again, what we'd seen of the planned curricula didn't convince us at all.
Guess why today's students are striking.
Yep, the fees they pay aren't invested back into the system in a way that would benefit them.
And there are all sorts of problems with the new university degree courses that were thrown together without much thought.
This makes me sad and angry and a little bitter
In 1997/98, when I was still at uni, we were on strike, too. We protested against the plans to introduce fees, most of us not because we were categorically against paying for a university education (in an ideal world....), but because we thought the proposed system would mean that the fees wouldn't actually be used to improve teaching and research - or pay for much-needed repairs of shoddy 80s buildings. Another bone of contention was the introduction of 'Bachelor' and 'Master' degree courses all under the guise of making studying in European countries more similar, the so-called Bologna process. We weren't against that per se, but, again, what we'd seen of the planned curricula didn't convince us at all.
Guess why today's students are striking.
Yep, the fees they pay aren't invested back into the system in a way that would benefit them.
And there are all sorts of problems with the new university degree courses that were thrown together without much thought.
This makes me sad and angry and a little bitter
