Update from National Union of Students ( NUS)
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Today the Deputy Prime Minister and Federal Education Minister Julia Gillard announced that the Government would be introducing the voucher system we have been fighting against since December. This proposal will result in the death of dozens of valuable subject areas, represent a massive shift away from national priority areas, severely threaten regional universities and adversely effect student choice.
NUS will be holding snap demonstrations against the voucher system tomorrow THURSDAY MARCH 5TH. We will be meeting at Hungry Jacks in the city at 10.30am so that we can board a train and be at KEVIN RUDD’S MORNINGSIDE ELECTORATE OFFICE at 11.30am. This is the major NUS campaign for the year and we need to have as many students as possible on the street protesting against this policy.
A voucher style funding model would be disastrous for students, for university teaching staff and for the higher education sector as a whole.
The demonstration will involve the gravestones which featured at our last action and we will also have a speakout and rally against vouchers (ie: bring your megaphones!)
Please tell all of the activists you know, all of your friends etc etc to get down and protest tomorrow. If you have any e-lists or facebook groups you have access to then please post this message across them.
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Kat
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