We can’t forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us. Graham Nash
We never clean the toilet, Neil. That’s what being a student is all about. The Young Ones s2e4: Sick, Rick, BBC 1984
It’s about becoming someone. A student. The Color of Money 1986 starring Paul Newman & Tom Cruise & Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio & Helen Shaver & John Turturro & Bill Cobbs & Robert Agins & Alvin Anastasia & Iggy Popp & Forest Whitaker et al, director Martin Scorsese
As students face a hike in tuition fees we investigate the real education gravy train. Dispatches: Cashing in on Degrees, Channel 4 2011
Next year’s intake face [tuition] fees of up to £9,000 every year. But life isn’t tough for everyone. For some university bosses the gravy train just keeps on rolling. All in the dash for cash. ibid.
Vice-Chancellor: £250,000. ibid.
British universities are now going global. ibid.
How do Professor Cantor’s [York] students feel about his expenses? ... The house he lives in is rent-free. ibid.
While students pay through the nose for their housing, across the country some university bosses stay in accommodation that you pay for ... Around half have grace and favour homes. ibid.
The body that oversees university pensions – the Universities Superannuation Scheme. ibid.
Britain is the second biggest player in the global student market behind the United States. Students from outside the EU currently make up 11% of all higher educational enrolments here; they make up 27% of all postgraduate students. And it’s estimated they contribute £5 billion to the UK economy. One of the top countries sending students to UK universities is India: last year it sent over 38,000 here – up 13% on the previous year. So the market is huge with the UK universities desperate to increase finances. ibid.
At the London School of Economics two-thirds of students are from overseas, many able to pay top rates. Eight years ago, one of those students was the son of Colonel Gaddafi. Saif Gaddafi was awarded a Phd in 2008. A year later the Gaddafi Foundation awarded £1.8 million to the University. ibid.
If we want to stop commercialisation destroying education we have to make a stand. ibid.
In June 1969 the organisation Students for a Democratic Society held its annual convention at the Coliseum in Chicago ... Students joined SDS by the thousand. Green & Siegel, The Weather Underground, 2002
Tonight: the fraudsters helping bogus students rip off student loans. They’re targeting private colleges backed by the government to open up higher education to all. For a cut of the student’s loan or cash fraudsters can fix everything. They’ll even help fake your coursework. Panorama: Student Loan Scandal, BBC 2017
It’s estimated that three-quarters of graduates may never pay back their student loans in full. ibid.
Montreal 2012: A student strike in opposition to a tuition hike rocked the streets of the city for over six months … The numbers on the streets would reach over 100,000. Police routinely clubbed students and their allies. Street Politics 101, 2013
The students would take over the streets … ibid.
Quebec: Over 200,000 people filled the streets of the city. ibid.
In June 1989 a lone figure halting a battalion of tanks in the Chinese capital Beijing sent shockwaves around the world. It is an act which China itself prefers to forget. What had started as a peaceful student protest calling for freedom and democracy ended seven weeks later in carnage. Storyville: Tiananmen: The People v the Party, BBC 2019
Thirty years on, eye-witness accounts and secret documents now help provide a deeper understanding of how the Tiananmen massacre changed the course of Chinese history. ibid.
Large scale protests broke out in 21 provinces. ibid.
On the evening of May 19th Premier Li Peng revealed to the Party the emergency plan to suppress the students. ibid.
More than 200,000 soldiers from the People’s Liberation Army had been deployed. ibid.
The hunger strike was abandoned in favour of the permanent occupation of the Square. ibid.
Martial law was under threat from within through an unprecedented mutiny within every rank of the People’s Army itself. ibid.
On May 23th one million Beijing workers staged a mass strike in support of the student’ call for democracy. ibid.
News of the crackdown had brought more people out on the streets … They were the first to discover the brutal truth. ibid.
I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college: I was too busy enjoying myself. Stephen Hawking
‘Ah college years, those were the days. Pure freedom ... leaving home for the first time ... the parties ...’
‘What about the tutorials, the lectures, the large building with all the books called the library?’
‘Is that what those were?’ Gerry blithely replied. E A Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
America’s frat boys – notorious for hard drinking and even harder partying. Bound by a secret world of rituals and life-long bonds between fraternity brothers. Its members go on to become some of the most powerful and influential people in America. But they are institutions accused of creating a culture of sexual abuse. And brutality towards its new members. Frat Boys: Inside America’s Fraternities, BBC 2016
Thousands of college students pledge allegiance to a fraternity or sorority each year. ibid.
Elite clubs that provide accommodation for their members. ibid.
From the time the American child reaches the sixth grade they are taught the key to success in life is to do well in high school so they can get accepted to the best possible college. The College Conspiracy, 2013
Most Americans today have an expectation of future economic success simply by obtaining a college degree. ibid.
The annual cost to attend the average private four-year college in America today is $27,293 … This does not include the cost of textbooks. ibid.
Colleges are getting kickbacks from publishers. ibid.
‘Not only will you not pay us back, you’re not going to get a job.’ ibid.
There is an epidemic in America of students using their student loan money for non-education purposes. ibid.
College education is the largest scam in American history. ibid.
They’re losing out on valuable income they could have been earning in those four years. ibid.
Exposure goes undercover in private colleges that attract foreign students to Britain. And some students aren’t happy. Students sold courses that didn’t happen: but will they get their money back? There’s threatening behaviour on campus. Exposure: Undercover Colleges, ITV 2013
A third of international student applications were to private colleges. ibid.
‘I believe this case shows the real Mexico. All of these events are marked by impunity. The bodies were abandoned, the injured were left bleeding out for more than five hours.’ The Missing 43: Mexico’s Disappeared Students, critic, Vice News 2014
Thousands of people have gathered to protest the disappearance of 43 normal students in the southern state of Guerrero and the killing of six others … This case has stunned Mexico to new levels of outrage and anger. ibid.
On the afternoon of September 26th a group of about one hundred students … were ambushed by police patrols and that’s when the shooting started: police shot indiscriminately at the three buses. ibid.
‘Police hand-picked the ones that were taken away.’ ibid. escapee
More mass graves were being discovered. ibid.
‘Defence against being exploited are their only means of getting their opinion across to the hierarchy.’ Hands Off Students Unions, student, short Youtube 33.08
Hands Off the Student Unions. ibid. demonstration placard
‘This document attacks us all … They are our organisations. They must remain our organisations. And we’ve got to fight to keep our organisations open and run democratically.’ ibid. protester
NUS Special - Action All Out on December 8. ibid. poster