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STUDENT activists left a four-week-long occupation against education cuts with their heads held high yesterday after an injunction order was granted to University of the Arts London (UAL).
Scores of supporters assembled outside London’s High Court Rolls Building in solidarity with the 15 students named in the legal action.
University management struck a deal under which the occupiers are spared court costs and disciplinary procedures, but which bans student protests on campus.
Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports
Cypriot lawyer and former central committee member of the Progressive Working People’s Party (Akel) TOUMAZOS TSIELEPIS discusses the case for expelling the British military from Cyprus
Almost half of universities face deficits, merger mania is taking hold, and massive fee hikes that will lock out working-class students are on the horizon, write RUBEN BRETT, PAUL WHITEHOUSE and DAN GRACE