Motion
- Motion title
- Defend Education - Fight for the Future
- Session
- 2021-2022
- Meeting link
- HE Conference
- Meeting date
- 2 June 2022
- Status
- Remitted (not taken)
- Motion
- HE21
- Motion text
Conference notes:
1. The student tuition fee cap freeze of £27,295 for post-2012 English and Welsh graduates, with RPI+3% over 30 years.
2. 2023-entry graduates will repay RPI-rated student loans above a salary threshold of £25,000 – for 40 years.
3. Additional proposals for minimum exam entry requirements for undergraduates, and caps in student recruitment for courses without ‘well paid graduate jobs’.
4. The existing marketisation process is creating university ‘winners and losers’, job losses and course closures, and undermining national bargaining.
Conference resolves:
a. To build a UK-wide campaign against these changes and for a sustainable funding model without fees and loans, and approach the NUS, the TUC and individual trade unions, and campaigning organisations such as the CDBU, CPU and HE Convention for support.
b. To call national demonstrations in Autumn 2022 in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast under the slogan ‘Defend Education – Fight for the Future’.
- Proposing body
- University College London (UCL)
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Higher education committee (HEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2022/H/06-02/131/HE21