[ENS] NUS President Wes Streeting debates Daniel Randall of ENS on "Is the fight for free education winnable?", 11 July

[Education Not for Sale]

2.30pm, Saturday 11 July, as part of the Ideas for Freedom event
hosted by Workers' Liberty.

With the £3,000 cap on top-up fees up for imminent review, British
students are facing the nightmare of an unrestricted marketplace in
Higher Education, with university bosses clamouring for the right to
charge tens of thousands of pounds per year for the privilege of
studying.

How should the student movement respond? Is it time to accept the
reality of fees, and simply fight for them to be capped at manageable
levels? Or can we fight for them to be abolished altogether? And, as
the capitalist crisis bites, where does the struggle against fees fit
into a wider struggle against the rule of profit in the education
system and society as a whole?

Where should the student movement be going?

* Wes Streeting is the president of the National Union of Students and
a member of Labour Students.
* Daniel Randall is a member of Workers' Liberty
(http://www.workersliberty.org), and a supporter of the Education Not
for Sale network (http://www.free-education.org.uk). He sat on NUS
National Executive Committee from 2005-6 and this year was elected to
NUS's new Trustee Board - having promised to bring it down from
inside.

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