Guardian Unlimited: Falling on deaf ears
John Sutherland
As the national strike by lecturers fails to gain significant newspaper column inches, John Sutherland wonders how the university sector has become so impotent
Wednesday March 8, 2006
The headline was in giant letters and dominated the front page of newspaper, placard-style. “Strike!!” it thundered.
That was the good news for the Association of University Teachers (AUT) and Natfhe activists. The bad news was that the newspaper in question was the London Student. In the national press, the academic “day of action” on March 7 – to be followed by a strategic boycott of marking and examining duties – didn’t rate a mention.
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