Do the very neat future the majority of students price. Within this guiding idea, a whole tange of in pust A-level education will not be found in the inveisities and so it is initially surprising that so-called student unrest has been almost tatilly confined to this sector. Of course, there have been sporadic outbursts elsewhere. most sotably in the Art College of Hornsey and Guldford which were, significantly, the most sustained, and, in many ways, the most constructive examples of student (and staff) attempts to win a measure of control over their educational situation. Now we are secing the rise of a much more potent force than yet experienced: the Polytechnics These institutions, the brainchild of the last "reforming" Labour Government, were presen» least) role of Miller as Principal of University Bed by the then Secretary of Education, Anthony Crosland, as institutions providing a "comprehensive" education which really meant an education tied to vocational training und consequently more intimately linked with industry and the needs of employers as witmessed by the vast increase in sandwich courses These "Colleges of the People" are to be the centre piece of the lower half of the binary system, whose impleit function is to provide as many highly qualified technical personnel as Possible for industry at the cheapest possible SOME NECK Pride and joy of the Unionist regime in the North of Ireland is the shiny New University of Ulster" at Coleruine. Unfortunately it is being spoiled by that curse of the colleges-the students The Reverend Paisley's Protestant Telegraph. raging at the waste of taxpayers* money involved in the showing of the Tricolour and Starry Plough by the Queens University Belfast RepubIcan Clab, goes on to reveal another abominaThe graduates of Coleraine have chosen as the desgo for their post-graduate scarf a plain red background, with silhouettes of Leon Trotsky all over it. Three firms huve already tendered for the supply of the scarves.
What the good "Doctor" does not reveal is that after the University Senate issued a public tatement, in which they said that the meeting which chose the design was "not representative of the graduates", the Union called the bestattended general meeting there has been in the University, and proceeded to give massive Backing to the decision.
Stop press: Students at Coleraine have occupied administrative offices.
THE DENNE LITIAN geographicully dispersed institutions with distering course set-ups and types of student traditions have been torcibly wed without any thought as to what those who taught and learned there had to say on the matter. Thus at any rate, is the case it N.W. Poly.
Comprising four separate institutions, matters finally came to a head when a certain Professor Miller was selected as Principal by the Formation Committee a group of people totally unrepresentative of staff and students alikeproviding the immediate cause for the current unrest. Although the initial campaign revolved around the questionable (to say the College, Rhodesia, this one-sided emphases was quickly broadened to a questioning and rejection of the mechanics of Miller's appointment as such, leading to the demand that "..- the Principal call a general assembly of students; teaching service and technical staff within 26 days to consider the appointment of Professor Miller". Of course. this demand was not met, and Miller's facile views on education in general and Polytechnics in particular expressed at a subsequent meeting with the Union made evi dent his sotal incompetence and lack of IMMEDIATE FREEDOM FOR GLUNTON!
POLITICAL ASYLUM FOR GLUNTONI Glunton Dowdell, black militant and a member of the Revolutionary League of Black Workers, has been living in "humanitarian" asylum from the U.S.A. In Sweden for the last twelve months. He now faces the prospect of being sent back to the U.S., after being brought to trial on charges of which he is innocent. He has been imprisoned and refused any communica tion outside except with his lawyer. The status of humanitarian asylum in Sweden is granted he can still be sent back there unless he is granted political asylum This move is an indication of the way the Swedish government is moving: it has recently been seeking closer contact with the U.S. for advice and aid in solving its economic problems, But it cannot make such approaches success fully unless it concretely shows its willingness to cooperate. The victimisation of Glunton is only one of such manifestations.
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The three weeks of thee sit-in since then have been rather chequered. Withour an organised let in the college, there has been no obvious rallying pont for those wito wished to carry the strugele forward, and from those whe have come logether no clear perspective has emerged. Of course, it was seen from the beginning that it was essential to broaden the struggle both to the other buildings of the Poly and to other colleges and universities, but with the lack of any understanding of the place and function of the Poly in particular, and education in general, in moder capitalism, and of the inability to clearly identify who exactly the enemy is in this struggle, what militancy has emerged has been in ultraleftist directions with, for instance, the misguided attempt to involve the students at Ladbroke House by locking them out of their owt building, thus alienating precisely these students that needed to be won over. And, predictably, the NCS has played a lamentable support his case. Members should try and pass resolutions of solidarity, supporting the two demands above. These messages should be sent immediately to:
Solidarity Committee for Glunton Dowdell c/o David Bararesgaten 26A Stockholm Sweden.
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APRIL Brh: Teachers Rod Cies, 8 p.m, George IV pub, Penitonville Road, London N. |Kings X/ Topic: *Education in the Societ Union fron the Revolurion role in the whole affair: their "total and unquali fied support" amounting to so nuch verbiage when the vital necessily is to extend the struggle to other colleges.
But whatever the outcome of this present struggle walch Inoks like being called off withcut any gains-it is clear that the Polytechnics have emerged as en important force in the student milieu. The binary system, which for so long has had the effect of splitting the student body and localising conflicts, is rebounding on those who would wish to perpetuate it. The fusion of the contradictions implicit in a cheap education policy for which this lower half is being forced to taice the brunt, the extreme form of regimentation in relation to the universily which is thereby necessitated, and the frustrated aspirations of the students, whose entry qualifications do net mark them off from their much more fortunate brothers in the universily, will combine with the crisis int bourgeois ideology to produce, one might predict. a truly explosivo situation which could produce the sort of sifuation which we have come to expect only from the Continent. J. R. Cones The latest recruit to the Tories front bench in
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