STUDENTS in higher education are faced with another round of government attacks. The Fowler Review contains proposals for two phases of cuts, the first of which is due to start in September this students will be disallowed from supplementary and housing benefit in the eight weeks of holiday at Xmas and Easter.
This represents a loss of £216 to students in London. But those in halls of residence will lose all rights to claim benefits throughout the academic year, amounting to a potential f340.
Cuts phase two is planned for after the next general election. All students in higher education will lose all rights to claim supplementary and housing stand to be t105 a vear worse off as a result. Students will be pushed into security jobs, or back into the home and dependancy on their parents.
These cuts will further restrict access to higher education, making it available only to the shrinking elite who can afford to pay. And these proposals go hand in hand with plans to privatise the Juveniues.
But the student fightback has already begun all over the country. Last Friday, 2500 came out in London JEUICOL• The Students is organising a high-profile national campaign. the ranks of Tory students.
1 mass lobby of parliament and a rally ang march on the DHSS Education and Science is planned for 26 February. Support the march! Fight the cuts!
year, when all claiming benefit all year long. London students low-paid, lowNational of Resistance is massive, reaching even into Department LABOR F BLACK LINS