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Universities protest in defence of ‘public service’
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First strike for over thirty years
In the French press, many have argued that the university movement is due to dangerous marxist lecturers. I wish it was! I am a lecturer, and I only see another Marxist on the 31st of June every year! In fact, the lecturers have not been on strike since some time in the 1970s! But this time, the governments determination to give over control of research to highly paid local managers (whereas for the moment it is guided by a national, elected commission has been too much for lecturers. The government is also wanting to transform teacher training in order to make teachers much cheaper for the state. Finally, fears that France will follow other countries like England and charge students 3 000 euros or 6 000 euros a year for going to university (at the moment in France it is around 250 euros) have encouraged revolt.
students and lecturers
Doubt in our class structured and uneducated country ie england ,the students are intelligent enough to join with the masses.The lecturers ,they part of the establishment ,unity is alien in an uneducated and class structured country living in the 16and 17th century philosophy.