Students at Manchester and Edinburgh universities have been holding a variety of activities over the weekend, from teach-ins in Edinburgh to an open-day this Sunday at Manchester Uni. Details are on the respective blogs:
Edinburgh occupation blog
Manchester occupation blog
From the Guardian
Students at Glasgow and Manchester [that should actually be Edinburgh and Manchester - Guardian seems to be having difficulty keeping up with the speed of events] are refusing to leave the buildings until their demands are met, after similar occupations at other universities provided tangible results in what is being seen as a new era of highly organised student activism.
Katan Alder, 22, one of 50 Manchester University protesters who have occupied a university building for nine days, said students were abandoning diplomatic tactics in favour of direct action.
"There is a new level of anger among students that we haven't seen before," he said. "There is definitely a new confidence among students who are beginning to realise that if they want to achieve anything simple negotiation won't work, our actions have to escalate."
Students at Goldsmiths, University of London, ended their occupation yesterday after their demand - two scholarships for students from Palestine's al-Quds university - was met. The students campaigned for a year without success, but their demands were met within 24 hours after they occupied Deptford town hall, which houses the university management offices, said James Heywood, 21.
"We were getting ignored and patronised, so when we saw what was happening at other universities we took direct action," he said. more
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