Protest at UWE Course Cuts

Staff, students and unions protested today at cuts to educational provision at the University of the West of England.

bristol observer writes

The self-styled CEO of UWE has spent the past year marketing the institution as being "Better Together" but has decided that the only way to run the institution is to impose decisions based on secret reports.

Some 440 students have joined the Save UWE Languages Facebook site and more than 880 members of staff have signed a petition protesting the cuts.

Today a large number of staff and students turned up to a lobby, which was covered by BBC television news. Earlier in the day BBC radio interviewed the University and College Union regional officer, who explained the absurdity of cutting language provision at the same time at which the British Academy released a report urging a rethink of language policy in UK higher education and secondary schools. Local MEP Graham Watson also weighed in to protest the cuts. Even the Bristol Evening Post found time and space to cover the protest.

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