Monthly Archives: February 2012

Earlier tonight, Trustee Board papers from a meeting earlier this year were leaked onto the Indymedia newswire. They detail yet another power grab (though this time it’s an effective coup) in the Guild of students by the senior management team. … Continue reading →

It has now been announced that the Question Time debate with the Vice Chancellor has been postponed presumably at the behest of the sabbatical officer team who think letting students question him would threaten the Guild’s relationship with the university. … Continue reading →

From Edd Bauers FB wall Since yesterdays highly successful and well attended demonstration against the injunction, I have come under considerable criticism from certain individuals, mainly those with strong connections to the Guild. The nature of the criticism is that … Continue reading →

The students arrested at the protest earlier today have now been released without charge after spending six hours in police cells. Thanks for all those who came to the police station to show solidarity with them, they were delighted to … Continue reading →

Today’s protest ended in another sit -in at the University’s Corporate Conference Centre. It was a great success, with students doing what arrogant, overpaid university executives thought was impossible. The protest was against the ban on “occupational protests” and the … Continue reading →

  Today we staged a sit-in at the University of Birmingham for the following reasons: In defiance of the unprecedented injunction banning stationary protests this sit-in took place, stopping access to the main conference centre rooms and disrupting meetings that … Continue reading →

SImon Furse has today received an announcement that his disciplinary hearing that took place this morning has been temporararily cancelled. It was cancelled mid-hearing due to procedural irregularities caused by student protest throughout the day, which at one point stormed … Continue reading →

After a march around campus, UoB students and supporters have occupied Staff House in protest against the injunction against protest on campus and the disciplinary hearing that is taking place today against the sole student that the University were able … Continue reading →

Ahead of larger protests today students of the University of Birmingham have shut down the hearing of Simon Furse. This hearing had the power to expel him and was essentially a kangaroo court of university managers. Its continuation flies in … Continue reading →

Cross posted from Edd Bauer’s VP Education Blog this week I was unable to fulfill Guild Council’s mandate to sign a letter to the University. This may seem odd as I was the author of the motion which gave the … Continue reading →