IT heads call for College fees to come back
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Wednesday January 22, 2003 15:24
by Billy from Athlone IT - AITSU
Time to Occupy the Campuses!
Today's Irish Examiner has the full story.
The Head of the Council of the Directors of Institutes of Technology, Dr. Mary Meaney, has said that the Government should reintroduce college fees.
Following on from University heads such as Dr. Art Cosgrave (UCD) and Dr. Seamus Smyth (Maynooth) this shows that most, if not all of the Colleges are against their own students.
Screw occupying government buildings, lets take over the Colleges!
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very bright adults continue their studies
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very little time.
what is education about?
learning proverbs?
learning equations?
learning civility?
doth manners maketh man?
what does an intermediate certificate mean?
what value does it have in Euro?
what value does a doctorate have?
what value does a job have?
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give us a child at seven
we shall show you the adult?
what value do you wish put
on your future intelligence?
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trade in human beings yet
forbids the misuse of slogans?
You didnīt even talk about MAI
Fianna Fail-Fine Gael Labour Progressive Democrats
Sinn Fein- Workers Party - IRSP - Ulster Unionist - Democratic Unionist - Social Democratic Labour Party - all of ye!
You didnīt even discuss MAI.
what value your debate and morning ireland "how terrible the world is" programmes if you donīt even know what MAI stands for?
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most of the global TV is porn.
Child prostitution in Dublin
Owen Keenan of Barnardo's discusses the issue
28k - http://www.rte.ie/news/2003/0122/morningireland/morningireland10a.ram
Where a college head comes out in favour of fees or a graduate tax the SU should organise oposition. Students should occupy, protest, boycott lectures, tutorials, practicals etc.
The SUs should get active and get militant on this issue. Students can defeat fees if they get organised alongside trade union activists and community activists to fight the government's agenda of cut-backs.
Where the SUs are full of self serving hacks you should organise a camapign of students against the government's fees
Cad é MAI?
Cad é MAI?
only marginalised anarchists and greens and true bolsheviks noticed.
They were being arrested and discredited with riot then.
So donīt feel bad about it.
shower of hooligans everyone of them.
we just might talk about MAI if / when the WEF go to Dublin.
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