A sit in at the university has entered its fourth day and students have marched in solidarity
Almost 100 people marched in support of Warwick University students who have occupied a new university building for four days.
Members of the Warwick for Free Education group have occupied the university’s brand new £5.3million conference centre called ‘The Slate’.
The protesters have staged the sit in over fears about student debt, staff being overstretched and concerns that large companies are going to come in and run universities for profit and not for the sake of students.
By protesting, students and non-students are directly breaching an injunction made against them by the courts in 2014. But students they are calling for the injunction to be scrapped.
That injunction followed on from a series of protests and sit-ins in December 2014 where the police were eventually involved.
Protesters previously held a meeting with Stuart Croft, the university’s vice chancellor, outside the building but there was no resolution found.
At about 5.30pm on Monday, students braved freezing temperatures to march from The Kone, outside Warwick Arts Centre, to The Slate building where many of those on the march went inside to offer support to the protesters.
It is understood The Slate’s first official event, a dinner for about 300 post graduates scheduled for Tuesday, is at risk of being cancelled if the protesters remain at the site.
But demonstrators have accused university bosses of using the event as a ‘political football’, suggesting it could be easily accommodated at an alternative venue on campus.
They were also protesting about a lot of other things which have nothing to do with education.
