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Feed the occupation! OCCUPY UAL

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OccupyUAL are protesting against dramatic cuts to places on Foundation Art and Design courses across the University of the Arts London (UAL). There are 200 places on foundation art courses set to be cut this year, alongside staff redundancies. This is set to rise in the next few years to approximately 600 places being slashed. These cuts are set to be devastating to UAL, cutting some of our most precious members of staff and most valuable courses. 

This is happening alongside drastic cuts to Further Education (FE) as a sector. FE is widely known to be one of society's great levellers: enabling people who have been out of education for a long time, or who have not previously been able to access it, to have the opportunity to enter education and then progress onto Higher Education. 

Institutions across Further and Higher Education sectors are plagued by high fees; a lack of democracy, diverse representation and input by students and workers; an increased influence of marketisation and the profit-motive into courses, curriculums, and services. In other words, we are fighting for free education. Free education does not only refer to money. We also believe that we should be able to learn freely: to be able to make decisions over what we learn, how we learn, and who teaches us.

We are in this for the long haul! We are using this occupation to disrupt university management. UAL should be for the students, workers and community: not for the profit of a few! While in the space we are using it to host a discussion about how students, workers and the London and wider community, can take charge of their educational institutions.

But we need your help! This occupation is costing money, that students - already under pressure because of the high cost of living in London - don't have: for flyers, posters, banners, paints and food!

Help us keep fighting by giving to this fighting fund! This is not just for our education, but for everybody. Please give as much or as little as you can.


THANK YOU!

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