Students demonstrate against planned University of Sheffield cuts
It was the first student action since last month’s announcement
Students from different representative groups gathered outside the University of Sheffield Students’ Union this week in a demonstration against planned cuts at the university.
On Tuesday, around a dozen students from the Sheffield Solidarity Group, Sheffield Communists, and Workers’ Liberty Sheffield were in attendance – handing out flyers and holding a banner reading ‘Stop the Cuts’.
It is the first student action to take place since it was revealed last month that the university was facing a £50 million pound deficit and would be bringing in a voluntary severance scheme for some academic and professional services staff as part of £23m worth of cuts.
Charlie Thomas, a student from the Sheffield Solidarity Group, said in reference to previous university staff pay disputes that it was “very important” for students to show their support.
He told The Sheffield Tab: “I think what we want to make different this time is that this we want to show that we support staff, we want to mobilise students.
“Obviously it’s Christmas and it’s going to start small, but the importance of building a campaign early is it makes it stronger later on, and I think we’re starting to get that done.”
Joseph Dolan, another student attending the demonstration, added that the main aim was to “draw attention” to the cuts and to show that there are “students on the side of staff”.
“It’s absolutely an important message and I think it just shows how passionately we care about it. It’s just a good way to get the message across.”
After the university’s deficit and cuts were revealed in November, 880 university staff members voted in favour of a no confidence motion against the University Executive Board at a Sheffield UCU meeting.
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With university’s finances come under more scrutiny, The Sheffield Tab then revealed last week that vice-chancellor Koen Lamberts had claimed expenses on £17,598 of business class travel expenses this year.
It was also revealed that £248,000 had been spent on security for pro-Palestine student protest action since January.
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