The Students of the Occupation of Bramber House would like to make it clear that any cancellations or disruptions to University education is a decision that has been made by the University management, specifically the new Registrar John Duffy.
This is explicitly against the wishes of everyone involved with the Occupation.
Earlier today one class of students that was booked to be in the occupied room decided, along with their tutor, that they wished to in fact continue with their seminar as planned. This was supported by the students occupying the room along with the Students’ Union, but opposed by the Registrar, and therefore did not go ahead.
“This is a blatant attempt by the management to unfairly discredit the Stop the Cuts campaign on campus.” said one of the occupiers, “but no one is fooled, we will continue until these Universities damaging proposals are dropped”.
Over 150 students, supported by hundreds attending the demonstrations of the last few days, have been in occupation since 4pm on Monday protesting against cuts announced earlier this year. We, the students in the occupation, stand in solidarity with UCU and the strike that they will be balloting on in the coming weeks.
[...] Statement on disruptions to education in Bramber House [...]
Demonstrate to defend the occupation and fight the cuts! TONIGHT! Occupiers have been inside for over 24hours in order to further the campaign to stop the relentless drive of management to destroy this university and the livelihood of staff.
9th February, 6.30 pm, Bramber House
Do they do much teaching in the conference rooms? I thought there weren’t used for teaching?
Will – to clarify, the conference centre is rented out by management to the highest bidder; even if departments at this very university want to make use of the facility, they have to pay – it has to come out of their own departmental budget. Given the conference centre is tucked away on the top floor of Bramber House, there was no reason whatsoever for the whole of Bramber House to be shut down – this was simply management trying to split the student body against itself.
On the morning of the 9th, a lecturer in the IR dept. wanted to enter the occupied space with her seminar group and conduct a teach-in about the cuts. All the occupying students were more than happy for this to take place. The university’s academic registrar instructed security staff to deny them access.
“On the morning of the 9th, a lecturer in the IR dept. wanted to enter the occupied space with her seminar group and conduct a teach-in about the cuts. All the occupying students were more than happy for this to take place. The university’s academic registrar instructed security staff to deny them access.”
Let’s foreground this
agreed, we need to make sure everyone know that the lecturer was denied by management
whoever gives the BBC interviews should mention that
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