Ryanair had to cancel a marketing event at the University of Manchester Students Union earlier this week after students dismantled their promotional stall in protest against the company’s record on the environment and workers’ rights.
A presentation by arms manufacturer BAE Systems at the University of Manchester was abandoned yesterday following protests by staff and students angry at the company’s presence on campus.
Bahraini students whose scholarships were removed following their participation in protests in Manchester are facing destitution and major disruption to their studies. The students and their supporters have called on universities, higher education institutions and the public in Greater Manchester to offer greater support to those affected by the political turmoil in Bahrain.
Lecturers at the University of Manchester took to the pickets yesterday as they went on strike against changes which threaten pensions.
Members of the University and College Union (UCU), which represents lecturers and teaching staff in Higher Education, have voted in favour of strike action over jobs, pay and pensions.
Workers, students, community campaigners, the unemployed and pensioners will take to the streets of Manchester this Saturday to protest against cuts to services that the council is set to decide on next week.
Aaron Porter’s position as President of the National Union of Students (NUS) looked increasingly untenable today after he was accosted and chased by hundreds of students from the University of Manchester campus to the Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), where he took refuge behind a police cordon.
