Articles by Edd Bauer
How our universities were “liberated” & why New Labour’s structural reforms have failed
Posted on April 17, 2012 | 4 Comments
Having been expelled from all university committees as VPE for a protest against the university’s controversial ban on protests, I have started a series of posts on the university based on its private papers to deliver in pamphlets to the university community. This is the third of these posts, the second & first can be [...]
Deregulation of universities has led to an attack on students and the workforce.
Posted on April 9, 2012 | No Comments
An enormous discrepancy was revealed between the University of Birmingham’s “public narrative” on its finances and the private accounts actually used to run the university. Further it is setting up new streams for revenue in areas commonly thought of as non for profit services, exploiting childcare services amongst others. All this is being done without [...]
Universities are becoming part of an oppressive infrastructure
Posted on April 5, 2012 | 3 Comments
A worrying trend is taking hold; what started as a trickle is becoming a torrent. A disproportionate attack on student protestors is unsettling not just the student movement, but a wider community accustomed to deeply enshrined political freedoms. This attack has emerged in response to a highly organised, highly politicized movement that is operating well [...]
The real silent majority
Posted on February 23, 2012 | 4 Comments
NUS conference is coming up. Motions are being; drafted, circulated, proposed and seconded all the across the country. However, soon many of these excellent motions will fall foul of the loud cries of the representatives of the “silent majority”. Any successful articulation and clear win in a debate by the left in The NUS and [...]
Education Inc – Universities are entering the fray
Posted on February 16, 2012 | 3 Comments
GAs the guardian reported, free school applications are open again. An ever more diverse range of groups are entering the fray for what is becoming a market in primary, secondary and further education. Currently free schools are not going to be allowed to be run “for profit”. It is quite obvious however that most of [...]
Calling all students, restore the right to protest.
Posted on February 1, 2012 | No Comments
Whatever differences of our oft dysfunctional, sometime self-destructive student “left” may have, it is nice to know that we also know exactly when it is time to unite and fight. Apparently some say we are divided, and perhaps the #ncafc tag on twitter is some evidence for this. However, this so called divided “left” including [...]
The bill is gone but the fight is on
Posted on January 24, 2012 | No Comments
We need to step up our game on the White Paper; the government is no longer going to do the work of defeating it for us. They were about to put its proposed regressive changes to higher education into the cold light of day where it stood a fair chance of withering and dying. We [...]
University of Birmingham students declare “I am Spartacus”
Posted on January 11, 2012 | 7 Comments
Today Birmingham students showed defiance against a repressive university. In response to a student being singled out and disciplined for taking part in an occupation of an unused university building last year, all occupiers have come forward and admitted to taking the same actions as that student. They take this action at a university which [...]
Student protestor attacked by his own union president
Posted on January 11, 2012 | 2 Comments
By Simon Furse and Edd Bauer Mark Harrop, the Tory president of the University Of Birmingham Guild Of Students (student union), has Colluded with the University management to try and suppress a peaceful protest. Harrop identified one of his own students for disciplinary action and helped the university in the deployment of an injunction that [...]
I can’t draw a line under democracy.
Posted on December 21, 2011 | No Comments
Edd Bauer has spent weeks suspended from his job as Vice President Education of the Birmingham Guild of Students, threatened with dismissal because he missed some meetings – whilst being imprisoned for hanging a banner from a bridge. Yesterday, his disciplinary panel found in his favour. Here, he writes for Bright Green. Yesterday I was [...]
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