only NO incurase in fees for OVERSEAS STUDENTS London Education crack dowa SUBERET pons and Higher committee of ILEA.
fine! IWO Their crime'?
TUTES.
to 25 percent by 1981.
The LAST weekend the Inner.
Authority took a new step in its drive in DECINCES London colleges.
REDMOND O'NEILE reAt a meeting of the Further • Education Sub. on 25 technics to the tune of 250,00. London Failure to comply with ILEA's guideline for cutting overseas students The LIPESS London aim to reduce the proportion of overseas students in individual London colleges I successful One result WEL not be more places for "British' students but college closures, the scrapping of courses with & high proportion of foreign students, and redundancies TAILUTE major probiem in organising a response to these racist measures has been the absencel any coordination of SILVILIS activity at an all-London level. At December's NUS Confetened, the national executive WER COUSIC TO CIVI on oversens students, by an ACe BLEETHIC SITESUS on If February, the NUS is to discuss the foes and quotas LAUNCHING PAD In spite of the fact that NUS will attempt to prevent this conference taking any decis the ions, it can act as n launching pad for real activity in Lhe colleges as it represents the first coordination of any kind to bo organised this year, Following the conserence there will fie against loes and quotas on 22 The NUS leadership has done little or nothing to build either of these activities, It is militants in the colleges to do so. In London this can be done by organising coordination of palous of the larger colleges STEE COS DOSS IS NOT OUT I the smaller colleges and win But if the campaigo is to have a longer term perspective, it will be newsity in uni at Ine conference for a clear line of no reliance on college autborities, but demanding they torn their moral abhorrence of racia discrimination into practical first and foremost refusing to implement cacist quotas or discriminatory fee levels The type of alliance which can seriously take on ILEA apd government is with the college workers. That can be built by institusing joint enquiries by the unions and students, which can demon chie existence al concealed quotas and demen demonstration trate the relationship between CUtE in Overseas student numbers and cuts in jobs.
The government's offensive against overseas scudents clearly anempis to split che student moversent along racial lines. Such moves can only achile the nrescot dove o the National Front to gain a hase amongst youth in the schools and small colleges
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE, 2 February. 1977 Dece 6