Calling all students! — Socialist Resistance newspaper

Calling all students!

Socialist Resistance youth supplement | page 4

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Our education system is a mess. With colleges going back, another year of students and staff face a mixed nightmare of poverty, debt, cuts, privatisation and ever deteriorating learning and working conditions.

More and more access to further and higher education is based on how much you can pay. Students from poorer backgrounds are far more likely to drop out or repeat courses than any others.

Last year a third of graduates had an average debt of over €10,000. At the same time graduate wages are falling and graduate jobs decreasing.

Now New Labour's plans to introduce to-up fees will force grounds, out of education. [email protected] thousands more students, particularly those from poorer backEveryone should have the right to learn, regardless of background or ability. The Socialist Alliance will be campaigning in the colleges against New Labour's attacks on education.

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