Welcome to the NUS Women’s Campaign’s Women Against Education Cuts website. We have set this site up as a hub for women fighting education cuts in their institutions across the country.
History shows us that in times of cuts, the most marginalised are hit the hardest. We are already seeing education cuts having a disproportionate impact on women. The courses that have been cut are the courses that women predominantly study. Nurseries have been closing across the country at an alarming rate. The few support services there are available for women experiencing violence are losing their funding. We can be under no illusion – education cuts are hitting women students unfairly hard.
We want to help you fight the cuts on your campus. This website will hopefully be a useful tool.
The first thing the website aims to do is collect information about cuts on the ground across the UK. Please go here and tell us what is happening on your campus. By sharing this information, together we can create a national picture of cuts and the impact they are having on women.
The second thing the website aims to do is mobilise for the TUC demo on the 26th March. As well as providing all the information you need about the march, we also want to collect information about feminist activists attending the march so that we can organise a Women Against Education Cuts bloc, and so that we can help you work together to organise travel to get to the march. Please go here.
The third aim of the website is to help you establish a local Women Against Education Cuts network. By setting up a local network you can strengthen your campaign against cuts locally. Please go here.
The website also provides further information about the impact of the cuts, and the impact of the cuts on women. The False Economy section links you to the excellent TUC False Economy website, which provides information about the fight against cuts in all sectors across the UK. The Impact of the cuts on women section provides two briefings written by the NUS Women’s Campaign about the specific impact of the cuts on women in education. This section should be useful for you trying to build your campaign against cuts locally.
If you have any questions at all about this website, or if you want to speak to me directly about fighting cuts on the ground, please feel free to get in touch.
In sisterhood,
Liv Bailey
NUS National Women’s Officer
Olivia.bailey@nus.org.uk
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